 Let us summarize the consequences of derivativeness in terms of the science and metaphysics of the processes discussed. First, the genic pluralists end up offering not, as they claim, a variety of genuinely diverse causal versions of the selection process at different levels. This is because the causes of the hierarchical models, however determined, are simply transformed and renamed in the lower level models, but remain fully intact as relevant causes at the full range of higher and lower levels. More importantly, no new allelic causes are introduced. Second, while genic models may be derived from hierarchical models, they fail to sustain the necessary supporting methodology. Third, the lack of genuine alternative causal accounts destroys the claims of pluralism or, at least, of any interesting philosophical variety, since there are no genuine alternatives being presented, unless you count renaming model structures as metaphysically significant (see also Okasha  2011).[18]  Thus, the picture of proposing an alternative “interactor” at the genic level is not fulfilled (vs. Sterelny &amp; Kitcher 1988). Perhaps the best way to save the pluralist vision is to appeal to the work on neighbor selection (Godfrey-Smith 2008), which can be cast within a pluralist program. This effort is to revive and discuss an alternative fashion of modeling altruism or group benefit, within the terms of a lower, individual level (see the discussion in  section 3.1, Genic Selection: The Originators).