Proving 'group selection': Spider colonies need the correct mix of personalities to survive
Wednesday, October 1, 2014 - 13:50
in Biology & Nature
The notion of "group selection"—that members of social species exhibit individual behavioral traits that render a population more or less fit for survival—has been bandied about in evolutionary biology since Darwin. The essence of the argument against the theory is that it's a "fuzzy" concept without the precision of gene-based selection.