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Extraordinary siblings: Mole rats, marmosets, and Radcliffe-Brown. [PDF]
PLoS ONEAccording to the theory of kin selection, an organism that shows some level of altruism toward her kin - lowering her own fitness, raising that of a close genetic relative - may enjoy an evolutionary advantage.
Doug Jones
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Gut microbiota alterations in golden snub-nosed monkeys during food shortage and parturition-nursing periods [PDF]
Frontiers in MicrobiologyAdopting unique survival strategies during spring food shortages and simultaneous parturition and nursing is crucial for golden snub-nosed monkeys. Social behaviors, such as altruism within one-male units (OMUs), are decisive for family health, but the ...
Guanwei Lan +15 more
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Biology Letters, 2022 Understanding how cooperation evolved and is maintained remains an important and often controversial topic because cheaters that reap the benefits of cooperation without paying the costs can threaten the evolutionary stability of cooperative traits ...
Marybelle E. Cameron-Pack +4 more
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The evolution of altruism and the units of selection problem
Theoria Beograd, 2022 In this paper, I will address one of the main issues in the philosophy of biology: the evolution of altruism and cooperation and the related problem of the units of selection.
Igor Zivanovic
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Journal of Biology and Medicine, 2022 Based on the visualization analysis of foreign literature on altruistic behavior in recent ten years (2012-2022) by CiteSpace, it is found that the research on altruistic behavior in the field of biology abroad has experienced the initial exploratory ...
Jia Li, Zhu Xianglei, X. Guoliang
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What, If Anything, Is Biological Altruism?
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 2021 The study of biological altruism is a cornerstone of modern evolutionary biology. Associated with foundational issues about natural selection, it is often supposed that explaining altruism is key to understanding social behaviour more generally ...
Topaz Halperin, Arnon Levy
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Coevolution of cooperation, causal cognition and mindreading
Communicative & Integrative Biology, 2010 The evolution of cooperation between unrelated individuals has long been a puzzle in evolutionary biology. Formal models show that reciprocal altruism is approximately as stable as kin-based altruism when cooperators can assort.
H. Clark Barrett +2 more
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Altruism across disciplines: one word, multiple meanings [PDF]
, 2012 Altruism is a deep and complex phenomenon that is analysed by scholars of various disciplines, including psychology, philosophy, biology, evolutionary anthropology and experimental economics.
Chapuisat, M., Clavien, C.
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Social evolution under demographic stochasticity.
PLoS Computational Biology, 2019 How social traits such as altruism and spite evolve remains an open question in evolutionary biology. One factor thought to be potentially important is demographic stochasticity.
David V McLeod, Troy Day
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BMC Public Health, 2010 Background Results from HIV vaccine trials on potential volunteers will contribute to global efforts to develop an HIV vaccine. The purpose of this study among police officers in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, was to explore the underlying reasons that induce ...
Bakari Muhammad +6 more
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