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100 1 Hertler, Steven C.,|eauthor
245 10 Multilevel selection :|btheoretical foundations,
historical examples, and empirical evidence /|cSteven C.
Hertler, Aurelio José Figueredo, Mateo Peñaherrera-Aguirre
264 1 Cham, Switzerland :|bPalgrave Macmillan,|c[2020]
264 4 |c©2020
300 lii, 359 pages :|billustrations ;|c22 cm
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
504 Includes bibliographical references and index
505 0 1. An Intellectual History of Multilevel Selection from
Darwin to Dawkins -- 2. An Intellectual History of
Multilevel Selection: Reformulation and Resuscitation --
3. Theoretical Foundations of Multilevel Selection Among
Humans -- 4. Aggregation: From Ethnic and Regional
Competition to Group Selection at the Level of States and
Nations -- 5. Growth, Maintenance, Control, and
Competition -- 6. Decline -- 7. The Collapse and
Regeneration of Complex Societies -- 8. Chimpanzee
Intercommunity Conflict: Fitness Outcomes, Power
Imbalances, and Multilevel Selection -- 9. Lethal
Intergroup Competition in Non-State Societies: From Small-
Scale Raids to Large-Scale Battles -- 10. The
Sociopolitical Integrity of the Roman State: Intragroup
Competition, Intergroup Competition, and Economic Dynamics
-- 11. Dear Enemies: French and English Power Ratios --
12. Expansion, Fission, and Decline: England and Anglo
America
520 "Multilevel selection is the only logically coherent and
empirically supported theory that can explain human
ultrasociality--the capacity of humans to cooperate in
huge groups of genetically unrelated individuals. Yet
influential critics continue to reject it. This timely and
important book is a welcome entrant to this intense
scientific debate. The stakes are high, because
understanding how cooperation evolved and can be
maintained is key to solving the Tragedy of the Commons
problems at both local and global levels." -- Peter
Turchin, author of Ultrasociety (2015) and Professor at
the University of Connecticut, USA This book embeds a
novel evolutionary analysis of human group selection
within a comprehensive overview of multilevel selection
theory, a theory wherein evolution proceeds at the level
of individual organisms and collectives, such as human
families, tribes, states, and empires. Where previous
works on the topic have variously supported multilevel
selection with logic, theory, experimental data, or via
review of the zoological literature; in this book the
authors uniquely establish the validity of human group
selection as a historical evolutionary process within a
multilevel selection framework. Select portions of the
historical record are examined from a multilevel
selectionist perspective, such that clashing civilizations,
decline and fall, law, custom, war, genocide, ostracism,
banishment, and the like are viewed with the end of
understanding their implications for internal cohesion,
external defense, and population demography. In doing so,
its authors advance the potential for further
interdisciplinary study in fostering, for instance, the
convergence of history and biology. This work will provide
fresh insights not only for evolutionists but also for
researchers working across the social sciences and
humanities."--|cProvided by publisher
650 0 Social evolution
650 0 Evolutionary psychology
650 0 Natural selection
650 0 Evolution (Biology) and the social sciences
700 1 Figueredo, Aurelio José,|eauthor
700 1 Peñaherrera-Aguirre, Mateo,|eauthor
