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Group selection is a proposed mechanism of evolution in which natural selection acts at the level of the group, instead of at the level of the individual or gene.
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| Group selection | is a | proposed mechanism of evolution in which natural selection acts at the level of the group | 0.90 | text |
| John Maynard Smith | instance of | evolutionary biologists | 0.80 | text |
| W | instance of | evolutionary biologists | 0.80 | text |
| the haplodiploid social insects like honeybees | instance of | including in special situations | 0.80 | text |
| where kin selection explains the behaviour of non-reproductives equally well | instance of | including in special situations | 0.80 | text |
| since the only way for them to reproduce their genes is via kin.In 1994 David Sloan Wilson | instance of | including in special situations | 0.80 | text |
| Elliott Sober argued for multi-level selection | instance of | including in special situations | 0.80 | text |
| including group selection | instance of | including in special situations | 0.80 | text |
| on the grounds that groups | instance of | including in special situations | 0.80 | text |
| like individuals | instance of | including in special situations | 0.80 | text |
| could compete | instance of | including in special situations | 0.80 | text |
| honeybees | instance of | Williams's 1971 book Group Selection assembled writings from many authors on the same theme.It was in the 1960s generally agreed that group selection also applied for eusocial i… | 0.80 | text |
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