Group selection models combine selection pressure at the individual level with selection pressure at the group level … with disproportionately many other cooperators, cooperation can evolve. The existing literature on group selection …

Group selection models combine selection pressure at the individual level with selection pressure at the group level … with disproportionately many other cooperators, cooperation can evolve. The existing literature on group selection …

fitness. Although there are interesting classes of group selection models for which this is possible, we show that it is not … true in general. With a simple set of group selection models, we show two distinct limitations that prevent recasting in … relatedness of its meaning. The second limitation is across time. We show that one can find the trajectory for the group selection …