 But there is still a problem. Although the conclusion is that “there should be no controversy over replicators versus vehicles. Replicator survival and vehicle selection are two aspects of the same process” (1982a: 60), the genic selectionist does not just leave the vehicle selection debate alone. Instead, the argument is that we do not need the concept of discrete vehicles at all. This is what we shall investigate in  section 3.4 Genic Selection: The Pluralists.