A Critical Review of Philosophical Work on the Units of Selection Problem
- 1 December 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Philosophy of Science
- Vol. 61 (4), 534-555
- https://doi.org/10.1086/289821
Abstract
The evolutionary problem of the units of selection has elicited a good deal of conceptual work from philosophers. We review this work to determine where the issues now stand.This publication has 27 references indexed in Scilit:
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