An Evolutionary Economic Paradigm, with David Sloan Wilson
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Multi-Level Selection in a Monopoly Tournament
If you have a normally functioning human body, this could be an example of a CAS1 system. But then when you get an instance of cancer, when you have a cell that is following its own self-interest, the cancer undermines the conditions for that whole body to thrive. That is definitely an example of multi-level selection. And so against that background we can see that it is exactly the process of two level selection in which the organism is the group and the cells are the agents within the group. Most of the cells are cooperative cells, those why we function like an organism. And a cancer cell is basically a cheater. It is growing at the expense of the cooperative cells and
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