GROUP SELECTION

Refers to a process of natural selection that

favors characteristics in individuals that increase
the fitness of the group the individuals belong to
relative to other group.
-every member of the group depends on the
group characteristics that is not isolated in
a single individual.
Group selection can lead to the spread of group
beneficial characteristics in many different
group setting of agents population.
 Most organisms have a dispersal stage-the
seeds and pollen of plants, the post-teneral
migratory phase of adult insects, the larvae of
benthic marine life, the adolescents of many
vertebrates. This means that individuals are
spatially restricted during most of their life
cycle, with the exception of their dispersal
phase, when what was previously a boundary
is easily transcended. As an example, a
caterpillar is restricted to one or a few plants,
but as a butterfly it spans whole fields.