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THE terms group selection and intergroup selection1,2 have been used in referring to a variety of phenomena including recently the evolution of behavioural social systems involved in population control3,4. Since the phenomenon of group selection promises to receive greater attention from students of evolution in the future, I feel that a clarification of terms at this time will help to prevent confusion. The “groups” under consideration may be quite different from each other and the action of natural selection on them will depend on the nature of the group.
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BROWN, J. Types of Group Selection. Nature 211, 870 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/211870a0
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