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

1. An Intellectual History of Multilevel Selection from Darwin to Dawkins2. An Intellectual History of Multilevel Selection: Reformulation and Resuscitation3. Theoretical Foundations of Multilevel Selection Among Humans4. Aggregation: From Ethnic and Regional Competition to Group Selection at the Level of States and Nations5. Growth, Maintenance, Control, and Competition6. Decline7. The Collapse and Regeneration of Complex Societies8. Chimpanzee Intercommunity Conflict: Fitness Outcomes, Power Imbalances, and Multilevel Selection9. Lethal Intergroup Competition in Non-State Societies: From Small-Scale Raids to Large-Scale Battles10. The Sociopolitical Integrity of the Roman State: Intragroup Competition, Intergroup Competition, and Economic Dynamics11. Dear Enemies: French and English Power Ratios12. Expansion, Fission, and Decline: England and Anglo America.