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What are you trying to argue? Pinker's article says,
If you think that "new group selectionists" would agree with this, why call them that? The 'old' kind doesn't seem to have gone away, since you yourself cite articles explicitly arguing against them:
Another of your cited abstracts gets more specific:
Coyne's anti-group-selection piece quotes an overlapping group of authors as follows:
You also cite people who would at least partly disagree with the bolded part of that. But even they might agree with the last point. They appear to recommend the dual-perspective approach for people who thoroughly understand the individual fitness approach already, and could explain any valid evolutionary argument in those terms.
My article's title is a good synopsis:
Group selection and kin selection are formally equivalent. I.O.W. they make the same predictions.
Richard Dawkins, E. O. Wilson, Martin Nowak and Steven Pinker are not on board with this. They have yet to join the modern scientific consensus about group selection.