Units of selection

New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. Edited by Elisabeth A. Lloyd (2023)
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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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