Group Selection

After publishing On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin became concerned that evidence of altruism in the animal kingdom threatened his theory of evolution. How could behaviors such as the self-sacrificial acts of social insects evolve if they reduced the fitness of the individuals that ...

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