Tag Archives: kin selection

Group selection versus kin selection

Posted on November 7, 2014 by Artem Novozhilov

The group-selection dustup continues: E. O. Wilson calls Richard Dawkins a “journalist”

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Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma

Posted on July 17, 2012 by Artem Novozhilov

Here are two recent texts on the iterated prisoner’s dilemma: Extortion and cooperation in the Prisoner’s Dilemma Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma contains strategies that dominate any evolutionary opponent via Yuri Wolf Added: post by John Hawks

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Group selection and Jerry Coyne

Posted on June 24, 2012 by Artem Novozhilov

Jerry A. Coyne continues to express his opinion on the group selection concept in his blog. This particular post has a lot of interesting references, so I decided to keep it here. Added: And here is yet another post.

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Lectures on Mathematical foundations of evolutionary theory

Posted on June 7, 2012 by Artem Novozhilov

I looked through my lectures on the course I gave twice during the last couple of years and made some small changes, fixed a few typos, etc. Here are all the lectures together, in Russian: Lecture 0: A naive introduction … Continue reading →

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Kin and kind (again about kin selection)

Posted on March 10, 2012 by Artem Novozhilov

Now the details of the story Nowak et al. vs kin selection are in New Yorker. Here is a post by Jerry Coyne with his critique of the article.

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On kin selection (update)

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Artem Novozhilov

This is an update on this post. The evolutionary biology community answered massively in the last Nature issue. There are total of 5 brief communications stating that Nowak et al. are wrong, who still stand by their work and claim … Continue reading →

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On ants, almost

Posted on September 12, 2010 by Artem Novozhilov

I have just read the paper by Nowak et al.  http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v466/n7310/full/nature09205.html The reaction is mostly wonder who the reviewers were. After browsing the Internet it was good to find out that my amusement is shared by very respectful people: http://johnhawks.net/weblog/topics/evolution/theory/inclusive-fitness-nowak-wilson-2010.html … Continue reading →

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