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Science 8 June 2007:
Vol. 316. no. 5830, pp. 1428 - 1430
DOI: 10.1126/science.1140806
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EVOLUTION:
A Multilevel Exploration

David Jablonski

Evolution and the Levels of Selection
by Samir Okasha
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2006. 275 pp. $55, £30. ISBN 9780199267972.
Considering conceptual and foundational aspects of the debates over levels of selection--natural selection acting on genes, individuals, groups, or species--Okasha pays particular attention to effects that filter from one level up or down to others.
The reviewer is in the Department of Geophysical Sciences and Committee on Evolutionary Biology, University of Chicago, 5734 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA. E-mail: djablons{at}uchicago.edu

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