Multilevel Selection

Steven C. Hertler is a licensed examining psychologist and Adjunct Professor of Psychology at the College of Saint Elizabeth, USA, with research interests in social biogeography, ecology, history, and sociobiology. Aurelio José Figueredo is Professor of Psychology, Family Studies and Human Development at the University of Arizona, USA. Dr Figueredo serves as Director of the Ethology and Evolutionary Psychology (EEP) Laboratory, which engages in cross-disciplinary research integrating studies of comparative psychology, ethology, sociobiology, and behavioral ecology, genetics, and development. Mateo Peñaherrera-Aguirre is a Ph.D. candidate in the Cognitive and Neural Systems Program. He is also a researcher in the Ethology and Evolutionary Psychology Laboratory and the Anxiety Research Group within the Psychology Department at the University of Arizona, USA.

1. An Intellectual History of Multilevel Selection from Darwin to Dawkins.- 2. An Intellectual History of Multilevel Selection: Reformulation and Resuscitation.- 3. Theoretical Foundations of Multilevel Selection Among Humans.- 4. Aggregation: From Ethnic and Regional Competition to Group Selection at the Level of States and Nations.- 5. Growth, Maintenance, Control, and Competition.- 6. Decline.- 7. The Collapse and Regeneration of Complex Societies.- 8. Chimpanzee Intercommunity Conflict: Fitness Outcomes, Power Imbalances, and Multilevel Selection.- 9. Lethal Intergroup Competition in Non-State Societies: From Small-Scale Raids to Large-Scale Battles.- 10. The Sociopolitical Integrity of the Roman State: Intragroup Competition, Intergroup Competition, and Economic Dynamics.- 11. Dear Enemies: French and English Power Ratios.- 12. Expansion, Fission, and Decline: England and Anglo America.