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COMMENT ON “GROUP SELECTION AND METHODOLOGICAL INDIVIDUALISM: COMPATIBLE AND COMPLEMENTARY” BY DOUGLAS GLEN WHITMAN

Richard Langlois

A chapter in Evolutionary Psychology and Economic Theory, 2005, pp 261-265 from Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Abstract: My compliments to Glen Whitman on a carefully argued paper that makes an important point: methodological individualism is not what you think it is; and, contrary to what many have argued, methodological individualism is not in conflict with the notion of group selection in the theory of cultural evolution. Of course, part of the reason I like Whitman’s paper so much is that, as some of his footnotes hint, I have been saying many of the same things for a long time1(Langlois, 1983, 1985, 1986).

Date: 2005
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