title: Group selection: the quest for social preferences.
abstract: This paper surveys the literature on group selection. I describe the early contributions and the group selection controversy. I also describe the main approaches to group selection in the recent literature; fixation, assortative group formation, and reproductive externalities.
authors.affiliation: Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden. marcus.salomonsson@gmail.com
authors.forename: Marcus
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Salomonsson
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D017753:Ecosystem; D005260:Female; D005716:Game Theory; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D012726:Sexual Behavior, Animal; D012919:Social Behavior; D013045:Species Specificity