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A Critical Review of Philosophical Work on the Units of Selection Problem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2022

Elliott Sober  and
David Sloan Wilson
Elliott Sober*
Affiliation:
Philosophy Department, University of Wisconsin
David Sloan Wilson
Affiliation:
Biology Department, Binghamton University
*
‡Send reprint requests to Elliott Sober, Philosophy Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA.
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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.

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Research Article
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 61 , Issue 4 , December 1994 , pp. 534 - 555
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Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1994

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Footnotes

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We thank the National Science Foundation for financial support (NSF Grant SBE92-12294). We also are grateful to Robert Brandon, Peter Godfrey-Smith, David Hull, Richard Lewontin, and the anonymous referee of this journal for useful suggestions.

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