A paradigm named for this process is used to analyze how religions promote cooperation and cohesion in the book Darwin’s Cathedral. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this type of evolutionary selection promoted by Elliott Sober and David Sloan Wilson to explain why humans have a “motivational pluralism” characterized by both egoistic and altruistic components.
ANSWER: multilevel selection [accept multilevel adaptation]
[10e] David Sloan Wilson later analogized multilevel selection theory to nested matryoshka dolls in an article co-authored with the unrelated E. O. Wilson, who coined the term for this interdisciplinary field in a 1975 “new synthesis.”
ANSWER: sociobiology
[10m] Multilevel selection theory is similar to this other theory, promoted by Robert Boyd and Peter Richerson, that explains adaptations like lactase persistence via an evolutionary feedback loop.
ANSWER: dual inheritance theory [accept gene-culture coevolution; accept biocultural evolution; prompt on coevolution]
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