Group selection or categorical perception?

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 19 (4):780-780 (1996)
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Abstract

Humans appear to be possible candidates for group selection because they are often said to live in bands, clans, and tribes. These terms, however, are only names for conceptual categories of people. They do not designate enduring bounded gatherings of people that might be “vehicles of selection.” Hence, group selection has probably not been a major force in human evolution.

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