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In the gene theory of selection, it's the genes that get selected, because they have a sufficient degree of permanence, and are able to undergo change over evolutionary time because of selection. Sometimes phenomena appear to be a consequence of individual selection or group selection, but bodies cease to exist, groups also cease to exist. Is there a "correct" level of selection?
"Dawkins and the Selfish Gene" Ed Sexton
In the gene theory of selection, it's the genes that get selected, because they have a sufficient degree of permanence, and are able to undergo change over evolutionary time because of selection. Sometimes phenomena appear to be a consequence of individual selection or group selection, but bodies cease to exist, groups also cease to exist. Is there a "correct" level of selection?
"Dawkins and the Selfish Gene" Ed Sexton










