The modern scientific consensus is that kin selection and group selection are equivalent, explain the same set of phenomena and make the same predictions.
This seems suspiciously similar to saying “kin selection exists and group selection basically doesn’t” but with less convenient redefinition of “group selection”.
They can’t be equivalent if group selection doesn’t exist—since kin selection is well established orthodoxy.
Both the kin selection and group selection concepts evolved after being invented. This is normal for scientific concepts: our ideas about gravity and light evolved in a similar manner.
This seems suspiciously similar to saying “kin selection exists and group selection basically doesn’t” but with less convenient redefinition of “group selection”.
They can’t be equivalent if group selection doesn’t exist—since kin selection is well established orthodoxy.
Both the kin selection and group selection concepts evolved after being invented. This is normal for scientific concepts: our ideas about gravity and light evolved in a similar manner.