Multilevel Selection and the Theory of Evolution: Historical and Conceptual Issues

1.      Chapter 1: Introduction (Ciprian Jeler)

 Part I: Historical issues: Multilevel selection and the theory of evolution during the twentieth century

Chapter 2: The Roots of Multilevel Selection Theory: Concepts of Biological Individuality in the Early Twentieth Century (Abraham H. Gibson, Christina L. Kwapich, and Martha Lang)

Chapter 3: Tales of a failed scientific revolution. Wynne-Edwards' 'Animal Dispersion' (Mihail-Valentin Cernea)

Chapter 4: Equivalence, Interactors, and Lloyd's Challenge to Genic Pluralism (Ryan Ketcham)

Part II: Conceptual issues: Higher-level causes, fitnesses and traits

Chapter 5: Price's hierarchical equation and the notion of group fitness (Ciprian Jeler)

Chapter 6: A backward question about multilevel selection: can species selection help disentangle the notion of group selection? (Andreea Esanu)