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framework:social-evolution-theory-inclusive-fitnessSocial Evolution Theory (Inclusive Fitness)
Theory explaining cooperation through genetic relatedness; argues altruism arises because interactors share genes
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- Central critique of existing theory, motivating the connectionist alternative
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- Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality (ETI)associated_withTheory explaining how new levels of biological organization and individuality emerge through transitions in collective intelligence and problem-solving rescaling.
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- Existing approach that uses genetic relatedness to explain cooperation; criticized as insufficient for explaining all ETIs.
- Framework for analyzing interactions between autonomous evolutionary units showing fitness effect sign reversals.
- The standard evolutionary framework based on selective advantage of step-wise mutations, which Alexander argues is insufficient alone to explain global geometric order in organisms
- Strengthens distinction between monotonic non-linear interactions (explanatorily redundant) and non-decomposable interactions (causally significant).
- The stage in the genetic algorithm where top 10% embryos by phenotypic fitness are selected.
- The theory that new levels of biological organization arise when independent replicators cooperate to form higher-level entities (Szathmáry, Maynard Smith).
- Core conjecture linking evolutionary and organismic individuality.