Group Selection Maynard Smith 1976

Dear E.O. Wilson (1975), D.S. Wilson (1975) & Gilpin (1975)
Darlington (1939) attempted to explain
a wide range of adaptations in
You are blurring the distinction between “group” and chromosome structure and recombination frequency
“kin” selection. in terms of inter-population selection.

Or giving too much importance to group selection, It is plausible to suppose that,

Or both. Whatever its origin,

sexual reproduction
p277 par1 is maintained
“Group selection will have evolutionary consequences; because
the only question is how important these consequences have been.”
populations which abandon sex

go extinct in competition with more rapidly evolving sexual species.

“If there are genes which, although decreasing individual fitness,

make it less likely that a group will go extinct, This plausibility depends on the assumption that: Comentado [L1]: Deme or species

then group selection will influence evolution.” the origin of new ameiotic parthenogenetic strains Deme: group of animals that interbreed.
is a sufficiently rare event Comentado [L4]: cepas

for each such origin to be balanced

“The debate was opened by the publication of Wynne-Edwards Animal
by the extinction of such a strain.
Dispersion (1962) which applied to animals a concept first proposed by
Carr-Saunders (1922) to explain human population dynamics: it
It is less plausible to suppose that
ascribed to group selection a major role in population regulation.” The chiasma frequency or recombination frequency within a species
Is determined by group selection
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Because there is widespread within-species genetic variation or
“ It is in the study of evolution of genetic mechanisms that group Comentado [L2]: I WONDER WHAT THOSE ARE…. ???
recombination rate, and we would therefore expect individual selection
selection assumptions are most pervasive.” Comentado [L3]: dominante
acting on this variation to outweigh any long-term effects of interspecies
selection. Comentado [L5]: No lo termino de entender, sobretodo el
therefore del final

Fisher (1930) argued that sexual reproduction owed its existence to the fact that:
“sexually reproducing populations can evolve more rapidly than asexual

ones”.
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17/03/2024

Something positive 'bout Wynne-Edwards!!! Halleluya!!!

paralelism individual-group selection

inter-demic is inter-esting :)
All this refers to Fig 1
Again, analogy individual-group selection

Critique to D.S.Wilson trait-groups

Conditions for GROUP SELECTION:
1. small group size
2. low migration rates
3. rapid extinction of group infected by selfish allele