Table of Contents

1.      Chapter 1: Introduction (Ciprian Jeler)

 Part I: Historical issues: Multilevel selection and the theory of evolution during the twentieth century

Chapter 2: The Roots of Multilevel Selection Theory: Concepts of Biological Individuality in the Early Twentieth Century (Abraham H. Gibson, Christina L. Kwapich, and Martha Lang)

Chapter 3: Tales of a failed scientific revolution. Wynne-Edwards’ 'Animal Dispersion' (Mihail-Valentin Cernea)

Chapter 4: Equivalence, Interactors, and Lloyd’s Challenge to Genic Pluralism (Ryan Ketcham)

Part II: Conceptual issues: Higher-level causes, fitnesses and traits

Chapter 5: Price’s hierarchical equation and the notion of group fitness (Ciprian Jeler)

Chapter 6: A backward question about multilevel selection: can species selection help disentangle the notion of group selection? (Andreea Eşanu)

About the Author

Ciprian Jeler is a researcher at the Department of Interdisciplinary Research – Humanities and Social Sciences of the “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iaşi, Romania. Most of his recent work has been in the field of philosophy of evolutionary biology and results of this work have been published in journals such as Biology & Philosophy, Biological Theory and History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences.