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'Unit of selection' is a polysemic expression, meaning interactor, replicator/reproducer or manifestor of adaptation/type-1 agent in today's biological research. This Element presents each of these concepts and demonstrates the necessity of their isolation.

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Introduction; 1. What is a Unit of Selection and How Can We Identify It? The Disambiguating and the Unitary Projects; 2. How the Expression 'Units of Selection' Acquired Its Polysemic Meaning or Why the Disambiguating Project Started; 3. Two Sources of Misunderstanding in Past and Today's Debates about Units; 4. The Framework of the Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality: A Challenge to the Disambiguating Project; Conclusion; Glossary; References.

Units of Selection

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      Publisher Cambridge University Press
      Published 21 September 2023
      ISBN-13 9781009449236
      978-1009449236
      ISBN-10 1009449230
      Also in:
      Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology Ethology and animal behaviour Philosophy of science

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      'Unit of selection' is a polysemic expression, meaning interactor, replicator/reproducer or manifestor of adaptation/type-1 agent in today's biological research. This Element presents each of these concepts and demonstrates the necessity of their isolation.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction; 1. What is a Unit of Selection and How Can We Identify It? The Disambiguating and the Unitary Projects; 2. How the Expression 'Units of Selection' Acquired Its Polysemic Meaning or Why the Disambiguating Project Started; 3. Two Sources of Misunderstanding in Past and Today's Debates about Units; 4. The Framework of the Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality: A Challenge to the Disambiguating Project; Conclusion; Glossary; References.

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