The replication crisis facing the psychological sciences is widely regarded as rooted in
methodological or statistical shortcomings. We argue that a large part of the problem is the …

Evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS) analysis pioneered by Maynard Smith and Price took off
in part because it often does not require explicit assumptions about the genetics and …

Samir Okasha approaches evolutionary biology from a philosophical perspective in Agents
and Goals in Evolution, analysing a mode of thinking in biology called agential thinking. He …

Hamilton's theory of kin selection is the best-known framework for understanding the
evolution of social behavior but has long been a source of controversy in evolutionary …

The theory of evolution by natural selection is, perhaps, the crowning intellectual
achievement of the biological sciences. There is considerable debate, though, about which …

Kin selection and multilevel selection are alternative approaches for studying the evolution
of social behaviour, the relation between which has long been a source of controversy …

Kin selection and multilevel selection are two major frameworks in evolutionary biology that
aim at explaining the evolution of social behaviors. However, the relationship between these …

Cultural group selection has been proposed as an explanation for humans' highly
cooperative nature. This theory argues that social learning mechanisms, combined with …

Hamilton's rule asserts that a trait is favored by natural selection if the benefit to others, B,
multiplied by relatedness, R, exceeds the cost to self, C. Specifically, Hamilton's rule states …

This paper provides a philosophical analysis of the Price equation and its role in
evolutionary theory. Traditional models in population genetics postulate simplifying …