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The inclusive fitness controversy: finding a way forward [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2017 This paper attempts to reconcile critics and defenders of inclusive fitness by constructing a synthesis that does justice to the insights of both. I argue that criticisms of the regression-based version of Hamilton's rule, although they undermine its use
Jonathan Birch
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Evaluating inclusive fitness [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2019 In 2010, a contentious debate erupted in the field of evolutionary biology in response to an article published in the journal Nature by two mathematical biologists, Martin Nowak and Corina Tarnita, and the renowned evolutionary theorist and entomologist, E.O. Wilson [1].
Peter Woodford
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Extending the range of additivity in using inclusive fitness [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Inclusive fitness is a concept widely utilized by social biologists as the quantity organisms appear designed to maximize. However, inclusive fitness theory has long been criticized on the (uncontested) grounds that other quantities, such as offspring ...
Samuel R. Levin, Alan Grafen
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Inclusive fitness forces of selection in an age-structured population [PDF]
Communications Biology, 2023 Hamilton’s force of selection acting against age-specific mortality is constant and maximal prior to the age of first reproduction, before declining to zero at the age of last reproduction.
Mark Roper +3 more
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Fitness for all: how do non-disabled people respond to inclusive fitness centres? [PDF]
BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation, 2021 Background Representation of people with disabilities in fitness centres is lacking, despite initiatives to promote inclusion mainly in the UK and USA.
Helene Nikolajsen +4 more
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Inclusive fitness for in-laws. [PDF]
Biol Lett, 2018 Cooperation among kin is common across the natural world and can be explained in terms of inclusive fitness theory, which holds that individuals can derive indirect fitness benefits from aiding genetically related individuals. However, human kinship includes not only genetic kin but also kin by marriage: our affines (in-laws) and spouses ...
Dyble M +3 more
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Honest signaling and the double counting of inclusive fitness [PDF]
Evolution Letters, 2019 Inclusive fitness requires a careful accounting of all the fitness effects of a particular behavior. Verbal arguments can potentially exaggerate the inclusive fitness consequences of a behavior by including the fitness of relatives that was not caused by
Samuel R. Levin +3 more
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Limitations of inclusive fitness. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2013 Significance Inclusive fitness theory is the idea that the evolutionary success of a trait can be calculated as a sum of fitness effects multiplied by relatedness coefficients. Despite recent mathematical analyses demonstrating the limitations of this approach, its adherents claim that it is as general as the theory of natural selection ...
Allen B, Nowak MA, Wilson EO.
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A new metric of inclusive fitness predicts the human mortality profile. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Biological species have evolved characteristic patterns of age-specific mortality across their life spans. If these mortality profiles are shaped by natural selection they should reflect underlying variation in the fitness effect of mortality with age ...
Saul J Newman, Simon Easteal
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The group selection–inclusive fitness equivalence claim: not true and not relevant [PDF]
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2020 The debate on (cultural) group selection regularly suffers from an inclusive fitness overdose. The classical view is that all group selection is kin selection, and that Hamilton's rule works for all models.
Matthijs van Veelen
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