Cancer and intercellular cooperation [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2017 The major transitions approach in evolutionary biology has shown that the intercellular cooperation that characterizes multicellular organisms would never have emerged without some kind of multilevel selection.
Marta Bertolaso, Anna Maria Dieli
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Kin selection theory and the design of cooperative crops
Evolutionary Applications, 2022 In agriculture and plant breeding, plant traits may be favoured because they benefit neighbouring plants and ultimately increase total crop yield. This idea of promoting cooperation among crop plants has existed almost as long as W.D.
Jay M. Biernaskie
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What is inclusive fitness theory, and what is it for? [PDF]
, 2016 Inclusive fitness theory is a cornerstone of modern evolutionary biology, yet critics contend it is not general but subject to serious limitations, and is ripe for replacement, for example by multilevel selection theory.
Abbot +56 more
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Sibling Relations in Patchwork Families: Co-residence Is More Influential Than Genetic Relatedness
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 In “patchwork” families, full siblings, maternal and paternal half-siblings, and non-related children are raised together, and sometimes, genetically related children are separated.
Petra Gyuris +5 more
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Hamilton's rule, inclusive fitness maximization, and the goal of individual behaviour in symmetric two-player games [PDF]
, 2016 Hamilton's original work on inclusive fitness theory assumed additivity of costs and benefits. Recently, it has been argued that an exact version of Hamilton's rule for the spread of a pro-social allele (rb > c) holds under nonadditive pay-offs, so ...
Martens, Johannes, Okasha, Samir
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When resistance is useless: policing and the evolution of reproductive acquiescence in insect societies [PDF]
, 2004 In social groups composed of kin, inclusive fitness benefits can favor greater cooperation. Alternatively, cooperation can be enforced through the policing of less cooperative individuals.
Hart, A.G. +2 more
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Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality [PDF]
Nature, 2011 Arising from M. A. Nowak, C. E. Tarnita & E. O. Wilson 466, 1057-1062 (2010); Nowak et al. reply. Nowak et al. argue that inclusive fitness theory has been of little value in explaining the natural world, and that it has led to negligible progress in explaining the evolution of eusociality.
Abbot, Patrick +136 more
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Evolutionary Roots of Property Rights; The Natural and Cultural Nature of Human Cooperation [PDF]
, 2019 Debates about the role of natural and cultural selection in the development of prosocial, antisocial and socially neutral mechanisms and behavior raise questions that touch property rights, cooperation, and conflict. For example, some researchers suggest
Bowles S. +18 more
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Chronometry for the chorusing herd: Hamilton's legacy on context-dependent acoustic signalling—a comment on Herbers (2013) [PDF]
, 2014 Biology Letters’ special feature on Hamilton’s legacy pays due tribute to a brilliant mind. Herbers [1] and the other contributors paint a compelling picture of how Hamilton’s work on inclusive fitness anticipated much contemporary evolutionary thinking,
Ravignani, A.
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Unifying the Theories of Inclusive Fitness and Reciprocal Altruism [PDF]
, 2006 Inclusive fitness and reciprocal altruism are widely thought to be distinct explanations for how altruism evolves. Here we show that they rely on the same underlying mechanism.
Fletcher, Jeffrey Alan, Zwick, Martin
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