#1318 César Marín: Multilevel Selection in Evolutionary Biology

Hello, everyone, welcome to a new episode of The De Center. I'm your host, as always, Ricard Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Cesar Marin. He's full professor in the school of science at Santo Tomaz University in Chile. And today we're going to talk about uh levels of selection in the context of evolutionary biology um and multi level selection and its implications in terms of multicellularity, social behavior, cooperation, cultural evolution, and other related phenomena. So Doctor Marin, welcome to the show. It's a huge pleasure to have you one.

Hi Ricardo and hi everyone. Uh thank you very much for this invitation. I have been following your a YouTube channel for for a while now and and I really like it, so it's a it's a true honor to be here. Well, thank you. Uh thank you for the kind words. So let's start here with uh I mean, this is actually a question that I've already explored other times on the show with f people like, for example I remember talking about it with Doctor David Sloan Wilson, with Doctor Samir Okash and other people like that.

Uh but what are uh levels of selection and uh I mean what is the distinction? I I think this is also an important distinction to make because sometimes people conflate the two concepts. What is the distinction between levels of selection and units of selection? Great. That's a perfect question to start this conversation. So a level of selection would be simply um a level across a biological Neste jerarquí.

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