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LIT-721: Multilevel Selection and the Major Transitions in Evolution

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StatusUnavailable — registered 2026-10-05 from Crossref, not read: no lawful full text could be reached. PhilSci-Archive, which holds the author's preprint, refused every request and was not bypassed; the journal copy is paywalled; a course copy on an instructor's personal domain was found and not used. Okasha's 2022 overview "The Major Transitions in Evolution—A Philosophy-of-Science Perspective" (LIT-749), read in full, cites it for the two-level view of transitions and restates its point that the traditional levels-of-selection debate set aside the origin of the hierarchy. Filed because it is the paper usually cited for multilevel selection in the major transitions. It stays Unavailable until a copy is supplied, not on merit.
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Tagsphilosophy-of-biology, philosophy-of-science, individuation
Extended byLIT-749 — The Major Transitions in Evolution—A Philosophy-of-Science Perspective

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Samir Okasha (2005), Philosophy of Science 72(5):1013–1025 — DOI-10.1086/508102

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Registered, not read. What the record holds of its argument comes from Okasha’s 2022 overview (LIT-749), which cites it twice: for the potential, in a transition, for selection to act at two levels, and, with Griesemer, for the observation that the traditional levels of selection debate “largely set aside the question of the origin of the biological hierarchy itself”. The 2022 text does not use the MLS1/MLS2 terms, so nothing is recorded here about them.

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Filed on 2026-10-05 at the owner’s request. The 2022 overview extends it. The account is THEORY-141.

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