Grinsted, Lena, Bilde, Trine and Gilbert, James D J (2015) Questioning evidence of group selection in spiders. Nature, 524 (7566). E1-E3. ISSN 0028-0836

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Abstract

Any field study showing convincing evidence of group selection would be a significant contribution to the field of evolutionary biology. Pruitt and Goodnight1 claim to provide such evidence in a 14–18-month field experiment on spiders. However, we contend that apparent flaws in their predictions, assumptions, methods and interpretations undermine this claim. We believe that the data presented are unreliable and are equally consistent with both group selection and individual-level selection; thus, we question the conclusion of Pruitt and Goodnight1 that group selection has produced the observed patterns.

Item Type:	Article
Schools and Departments:	School of Life Sciences > Biology and Environmental Science
Subjects:	Q Science > QH Natural history > QH0301 Biology > QH0359 Evolution Q Science > QH Natural history > QH0301 Biology > QH0540 Ecology Q Science > QL Zoology > QL0750 Animal behaviour
Depositing User:	Lena Grinsted
Date Deposited:	27 Aug 2015 12:26
Last Modified:	27 Aug 2015 12:26
URI:	http://srodev.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/56268

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