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Multilevel Selection: Theoretical Foundations, Historical Examples, and Empirical Evidence

✍ Scribed by Steven C. Hertler, Aurelio José Figueredo, Mateo Peñaherrera-Aguirre

Publisher
Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2020
Tongue
English
Leaves
402
Edition
1st ed.
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-lii
An Intellectual History of Multilevel Selection from Darwin to Dawkins (Aurelio José Figueredo, Steven C. Hertler, Mateo Peñaherrera-Aguirre)....Pages 1-40
An Intellectual History of Multilevel Selection: Reformulation and Resuscitation (Steven C. Hertler, Aurelio José Figueredo, Mateo Peñaherrera-Aguirre)....Pages 41-70
Theoretical Foundations of Multilevel Selection Among Humans (Steven C. Hertler, Mateo Peñaherrera-Aguirre, Aurelio José Figueredo)....Pages 71-99
Aggregation: From Ethnic and Regional Competition to Group Selection at the Level of States and Nations (Steven C. Hertler, Aurelio José Figueredo, Mateo Peñaherrera-Aguirre)....Pages 101-136
Growth, Maintenance, Control, and Competition (Steven C. Hertler, Aurelio José Figueredo, Mateo Peñaherrera-Aguirre)....Pages 137-174
Decline (Steven C. Hertler, Aurelio José Figueredo, Mateo Peñaherrera-Aguirre)....Pages 175-199
The Collapse and Regeneration of Complex Societies (Mateo Peñaherrera-Aguirre, Aurelio José Figueredo, Steven C. Hertler)....Pages 201-223
Chimpanzee Intercommunity Conflict: Fitness Outcomes, Power Imbalances, and Multilevel Selection (Mateo Peñaherrera-Aguirre, Aurelio José Figueredo, Steven C. Hertler)....Pages 225-249
Lethal Intergroup Competition in Non-State Societies: From Small-Scale Raids to Large-Scale Battles (Mateo Peñaherrera-Aguirre, Aurelio José Figueredo, Steven C. Hertler)....Pages 251-273
The Sociopolitical Integrity of the Roman State: Intragroup Competition, Intergroup Competition, and Economic Dynamics (Mateo Peñaherrera-Aguirre, Aurelio José Figueredo, Steven C. Hertler)....Pages 275-296
Dear Enemies: French and English Power Ratios (Aurelio José Figueredo, Steven C. Hertler, Mateo Peñaherrera-Aguirre)....Pages 297-319
Expansion, Fission, and Decline: England and Anglo America (Aurelio José Figueredo, Steven C. Hertler, Mateo Peñaherrera-Aguirre)....Pages 321-346
Back Matter ....Pages 347-359

✦ Subjects

Psychology; Biological Psychology; Behavioral Genetics; Social History; Anthropology; Psychological Methods/Evaluation

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