Miles Jackson wrote:
> Yes, I agree there is honest debate about this; however, I consider the
> data that supports the idea of group selection compelling. To get a
> little sociological, the dogmatic insistence that evolution must work
> solely at the individual level reflects our cultural infatuation with
> the autonomous individual. It's easy to take this criterion of
> parsimony too far: sometimes we need to add a little theoretical
> complexity to deal with the complexity of the world!
Agree wholeheartedly. And someone did mention bees on this thread. How do you explain the queen bee-worker bee phenomenon at the individual level?
Joanna