Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection

What conditions must a population meet for natural selection to actually operate on it? Godfrey-Smith answers with a framework far more precise than anything in popular evolutionary writing — he identifies the parameters (fidelity of inheritance, variation, competitive interaction) that make a population more or less "Darwinian." The result is deeper than any Dawkins popularisation because it replaces metaphor with structure. The book treats evolution not as a story but as a set of abstract conditions that can be present in varying degrees, which opens the door to thinking about cultural evolution, organisational selection, and other non-biological domains. A rigorous, original contribution that connects naturally to the multilevel selection debate in Sober, Wilson, and Okasha.