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Darwin’s views on group and kin selection: comments on Elliott Sober’s Did Darwin Write the Origin Backwards?

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  1. Note that many evolutionary biologists regard kin and multi-level selection as essentially equivalent, however, e.g., Marshall (2011). See Okasha (forthcoming) for an extended treatment of this question.

  2. See Frank (1998); Okasha (2006) or Marshall (2011) for details of Price’s technique.

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A version of this paper was presented at a roundtable discussion of Sober’s book at the 2013 meeting of the ISHPSSB in Montpellier, France. Thanks to Elliott Sober for discussion. This work was supported by the European Research Council Seventh Framework Program (FP7/2007–2013), ERC Grant agreement no. 295449.

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Okasha, S. Darwin’s views on group and kin selection: comments on Elliott Sober’s Did Darwin Write the Origin Backwards? . Philos Stud 172, 823–828 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-014-0379-8

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