Overview
- Provides new empirical evidence for human group selection
- Demonstrates how groups balance external threat against internal dissolution
- Accomplishes a comprehensive treatment of multilevel selection theory
- Follows the principles of gene-culture coevolution in positing a dynamic interplay between cultural and genetic selection
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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.
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Keywords
- Multilevel Selection Theory
- Group and Individual Selection
- cultural group selection
- gene-culture coevolution
- Evolutionary Genetics
- cultural evolution
- Inclusive Fitness Theory
- Altruism
- Social Behavior
- Historical demography
- social biogeography
- Community Ecology
- sociobiology
- Kin-Selection
- Between-Group Competition
- Parochial Altruism
- Social Ecology
- Social Epistatic Amplification
- social biogeography
- ecology
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About the authors
Aurelio José Figueredo is Professor of Psychology, Family Studies and Human Development at the University of Arizona, USA. Dr. Figueredo also serves as Director of the Ethology and Evolutionary Psychology (EEP) Laboratory.
Mateo Peñaherrera-Aguirre is a Ph.D. candidate in the Cognitive and Neural Systems Program and a researcher at the University of Arizona, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Multilevel Selection
Book Subtitle: Theoretical Foundations, Historical Examples, and Empirical Evidence
Authors: Steven C. Hertler, Aurelio José Figueredo, Mateo Peñaherrera-Aguirre
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49520-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-49519-0Published: 03 September 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-49522-0Published: 03 September 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-49520-6Published: 02 September 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: LII, 359
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Biological Psychology, Behavioral Genetics, Social History, Anthropology, Psychological Methods/Evaluation