praised Lorenz for his interest in the survival value of behaviour, and naturalists enjoyed Lorenz's writings for the same reason. In 1962, group selection was used as a popular explanation for adaptation by the zoologist V. C. Wynne-Edwards. In 1976, Dawkins wrote a well-known book on the importance of evolution at the level of the gene or the individual, The Selfish Gene.

From the mid-1960s, evolutionary biologists