GROUP SELECTION OR CATEGORICAL PERCEPTION

Authors
PALMER CT FREDRICKSON BE TILLEY CF
Citation
Ct. Palmer et al., GROUP SELECTION OR CATEGORICAL PERCEPTION, Behavioral and brain sciences, 19(4), 1996, pp. 780
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Psychology,"Psychology, Biological",Neurosciences,"Behavioral Sciences
Journal title
Behavioral and brain sciences → ACNP
ISSN journal
0140525X
Volume
19
Issue
4
Year of publication
1996
Database
ISI
SICI code
0140-525X(1996)19:4<780:GSOCP>2.0.ZU;2-S
Abstract
Humans appear to be possible candidates for group selection because th ey are often said to live in bands, clans, and tribes. These terms, ho wever, are only names for conceptual categories of people. They do not designate enduring bounded gatherings of people that might be ''vehic les of selection''. Hence, group selection has probably not been a maj or force in human evolution.