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Questioning evidence of group selection in spiders

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posted on 2023-06-08, 22:13 authored by Lena Grinsted, Trine Bilde, James D J Gilbert
Any field study showing convincing evidence of group selection would be a significant contribution to the field of evolutionary biology. Pruitt and Goodnight1 claim to provide such evidence in a 14–18-month field experiment on spiders. However, we contend that apparent flaws in their predictions, assumptions, methods and interpretations undermine this claim. We believe that the data presented are unreliable and are equally consistent with both group selection and individual-level selection; thus, we question the conclusion of Pruitt and Goodnight1 that group selection has produced the observed patterns.

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  • Published

Journal

Nature

ISSN

0028-0836

Publisher

Nature Publishing Group

Issue

7566

Volume

524

Article number

E1-E3

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  • Biology and Environmental Science Publications

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Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2015-08-27

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