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Social selection

Social selection is a term used with varying meanings in biology.

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Social selection

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related to Further reading · 56
Social selection → Altruism, Ara, Bad Feelings, Barkow, Basic Books, Boehm, Buss, Christopher, Cosmides, Culture, David, Desire, Doubleday, Dutton, Evolution, Evolutionary Psychiatry, Evolutionary Psychology, Francis, Frontier, Generation
related to Portfolio hypothesis · 15
Social selection → A1A1, A1A2, A2A2, Conversely, F1, In, Mueller's, P-generation, Red Queen, Roughgarden, Short, The, The F1, This, With
related to Criticism · 10
Social selection → An, Arguments, Bateman's, Forty, Other, Presented, Roughgarden, Roughgarden's, Science, The
related to Alternate uses of the term · 7
Social selection → Citing, David Buss, Geoffrey Miller, Mary Jane West-Eberhard, Nesse, Randolph, The
related to Hermaphrodism · 5
Social selection → Hermaphroditic, Males, Separate, The, Under
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Social selection → term used with varying meanings in biology.Joan Roughgarden proposed a hypothesis called social selection as an alternative to sexual selection

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Social selectionis aterm used with varying meanings in biology.Joan Roughgarden proposed a hypothesis called social selection as an alternative to sexual selection0.90text
foraginginstance ofsocial systems would be selected for which optimize behaviors0.80text
mate selectioninstance ofsocial systems would be selected for which optimize behaviors0.80text
Social selectionrelated to Alternate uses of the termThe0.60section
Social selectionrelated to Alternate uses of the termMary Jane West-Eberhard0.60section
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Social selectionrelated to Alternate uses of the termDavid Buss0.60section
Social selectionrelated to Alternate uses of the termGeoffrey Miller0.60section
Social selectionrelated to Alternate uses of the termRandolph0.60section
Social selectionrelated to Alternate uses of the termNesse0.60section
Social selectionrelated to CriticismPresented0.60section
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