Is this supposed to mean: different groups exist, whose members’ success or failure is tied together, so that we can sometimes expect to see group members with adaptations that would be self-destructive in the absence of its group?
That sounds like what I called group_selection_c. You might also be interested in selection at the group level even if it is based on adaptations that would be neutral in the absence of the group; or adaptations that can be said to be a feature of the group more than a feature of individuals (e.g., social conventions).
I guess I found “at the level of a group” to be vague. It turns out that its the groups that are supposed to be selected. This could be made more clear in the initial definition of “group selection”, although it was completely obvious by the time I finished reading the whole post.
Is this supposed to mean: different groups exist, whose members’ success or failure is tied together, so that we can sometimes expect to see group members with adaptations that would be self-destructive in the absence of its group?
That sounds like what I called group_selection_c. You might also be interested in selection at the group level even if it is based on adaptations that would be neutral in the absence of the group; or adaptations that can be said to be a feature of the group more than a feature of individuals (e.g., social conventions).
Got it.
I guess I found “at the level of a group” to be vague. It turns out that its the groups that are supposed to be selected. This could be made more clear in the initial definition of “group selection”, although it was completely obvious by the time I finished reading the whole post.