He was best known for his vigorous critique of group selection.

This was one of the earliest debates on group selection.

But modern population genetics rejected the idea of "group selection."

It is important to note that this argument has not settled the issue of group selection however.

However, since 1993 when that was written, group selection models have seen a resurgence.

In retirement, he continued to write and defend the group selection concept.

Group selection theory has been criticized by many other evolutionary scientists.

Group selection is now only recognised in certain restrictive circumstances.

Morality and religion, he suspects, are traits based on group selection.

This idea, known as group selection, was to become the focus of much passionate debate and ridicule over the years.

Group selection, altruism, and the levels of organization of life.

Calls were switched over two, three or four group selection stages followed by a final selector.

Through cultural group selection, culturally specific cooperative behaviour can evolve to support large societies.

Sperber says this could suggest that there are not just individual, but group selection pressures at play.

These two properties, rare in genetic transmission, are necessary for group selection to operate.

Viewed in this way, there is no conflict whatever between individual selection and group selection.

The book has been chosen by Hadassah as a 2007 book group selection.

Instead a process called "group selection" was proposed.

For several decades, critiques cast serious doubt on group selection as a major mechanism of evolution.

Maynard Smith can be credited with what has become known as the "haystack model" of group selection.

Cultural group selection gives a compelling explanation for how large-scale complex societies have formed.

By the way, strictly for those with a professional interest, there is an analogy here with the argument over group selection.

He is particularly sceptical about the practical possibility or importance of group selection as a basis for understanding altruism.

This is different from group selection where the biological fitness of an animal is linked to the entire population.