[R-sig-ME] Group selection and multi-level modeling

[David Duffy]

On Tue, 3 Apr 2012, Dominick Samperi wrote:

> The new E. O. Wilson book 'The Social Conquest of Earth" claims
> that the long dismissed idea of group selection is gaining some
> traction in part due to "multi-level modeling."
>
> Can anyone point to work that aims to support this idea and
> that employs the kind of models and software that is discussed
> here on the SIG-ME list?

Like http://www.pnas.org/content/108/35/14426.full (uses MLwin)?
Are you thinking of multi-level selection, perhaps?  From my limited 
reading, group selection is still pooh-poohed by a lot of people in the 
field.

I am more familiar with attempts to model assortment and gene-environment 
covariation, which give rise to recursive systems that are more easily 
modelled in a structural equation type framework.

Just 2c, David Duffy.

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