timtyler comments on Group selection update - Less Wrong

38 Post author: PhilGoetz 01 November 2010 04:51PM

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Comment author: timtyler 02 November 2010 09:10:06PM 1 point [-]

If you define a species as the set of all such organisms, then a "population" is a subset of that set.

Comment author: PhilGoetz 03 November 2010 02:56:25AM 1 point [-]

And a set is a subset of itself.

Comment author: timtyler 03 November 2010 06:56:19AM 2 points [-]

I don't really see where you are going with this. Yes, all the members of a species could qualify as being a "population" - expecially if they all lived in the same place.

However, that doesn't make species selection into a special case of group selection under the Wikipedia definition.