The units of selection

Lewontin, R. C. (1970). The units of selection. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 1-18.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1970

Pages

1-18

DOI

10.1146/annurev.es.01.110170.000245

DOI registrant

Annual Reviews

Link

https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.es.01.110170.000245

Cited from

biology_ecology, philosophy

Cited by

3 citations across 3 artifacts.

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Primes

• Downward Causation
  • From a purely bottom-up view, individual cells make "fate choices" based on local molecular state and immediate signaling environment.

    This sourceEstablishes the units-of-selection framework; supports D19-088 (foundational units-of-selection framing underlying multilevel analysis).

• Holism
  • Units of selection and evolutionary holism: Lewontin (1970)

    This sourceLewontin units of selection foundational for multilevel analysis.

• Selection-Visibility Gate
  • Selection is usually described as acting on variants; it acts on consequences, and only on those consequences that are expressed, exposed, or otherwise accessible at the moment selection operates.

    This sourceStates the conditions for selection as phenotypic variation, differential fitness and heritability of fitness, so selection acts on expressed phenotypic differences rather than on variants as such.

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