 Even the originator of the replicator/vehicle distinction also seems to have rediscovered the evolutionary efficacy of higher-level selection processes in an article on artificial life. In this article, the primary concern is with modeling the course of selection processes, and a species-level selection interpretation is offered for an aggregate species-level trait (Dawkins 1989a). Still, Dawkins seems not to have recognized the connection between this evolutionary dynamic and the controversies surrounding group selection because in his second edition of The Selfish Gene (Dawkins 1989b) he had yet to accept the distinction made so clearly by group selectionists in 1980 (Wright 1980). This was in spite of the fact that by 1987, the importance of distinguishing between evolution by selection processes and any engineering adaptations produced by these processes had been acknowledged by the workers he claimed to be following most closely (Williams 1985, 1992; Maynard Smith 1987). More recently, a related debate has fired up between genic selection and group selection in the journals, about the definitions of group and kin selection (E.O. Wilson 2008; see below). But this debate is bound for nowhere without tight enough definitions of these kinds of selection (Shavit &amp; Millstein 2008). The adoption of Wade’s strict definitions would help, following the prescriptions of early group selectionists (Shavit &amp; Millstein 2008).