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RETRACTED ARTICLE: Survival of the fittest group

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06 March 2023 In view of the fact that the paper ‘Site-specific group selection drives locally adapted group compositions’ (J. N. Pruitt and C. J. Goodnight Nature 514, 359–362; 2014) has been retracted, Timothy Linksvayer, the author of the News & Views article ‘Survival of the fittest group’ (Nature 514, 308–309; 2014), which dealt with this study and was based on the accuracy and reproducibility of the data, wishes to retract their article.

Experiments with social spiders find that colony size and composition affect colony survival in a site-specific manner, indicating that natural selection on group-level traits contributes to local adaptation. See Letter p.359

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  • 06 March 2023

    In view of the fact that the paper ‘Site-specific group selection drives locally adapted group compositions’ (J. N. Pruitt and C. J. Goodnight Nature 514, 359–362; 2014) has been retracted, Timothy Linksvayer, the author of the News & Views article ‘Survival of the fittest group’ (Nature 514, 308–309; 2014), which dealt with this study and was based on the accuracy and reproducibility of the data, wishes to retract their article.

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Linksvayer, T. RETRACTED ARTICLE: Survival of the fittest group. Nature 514, 308–309 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature13755

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