Overview: Provides new empirical evidence for human group selection.Demonstrates how groups balance external threat against internal dissolution.Accomplishes a comprehensive treatment of multilevel selection thThis book embeds a novel evolutionary analysis of human group selection within a comprehensive overview of multilevel selection theory, a theory wherein evolution proceeds at the level of individual organisms and collectives, such as human families, tribes, states, and empires. Where previous works on the topic have variously supported multilevel selection with logic, theory, experimenta
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