eLife, 2022 By spending more time around infants which physically resemble their own, mandrill mothers may increase how frequently their offspring interact with their paternal half siblings.
James P Higham
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Kin Selection in the RNA World [PDF]
Life, 2017 Various steps in the RNA world required cooperation. Why did life’s first inhabitants, from polymerases to synthetases, cooperate? We develop kin selection models of the RNA world to answer these questions.
Samuel R. Levin, Stuart A. West
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Suicidal selection: Programmed cell death can evolve in unicellular organisms due solely to kin selection [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2019 Unicellular organisms can engage in a process by which a cell purposefully destroys itself, termed programmed cell death (PCD). While it is clear that the death of specific cells within a multicellular organism could increase inclusive fitness (e.g ...
Anya E. Vostinar +2 more
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Kin selection theory and the design of cooperative crops [PDF]
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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Directional selection coupled with kin selection favors the establishment of senescence [PDF]
BMC Biology, 2023 Background Conventional wisdom in evolutionary theory considers aging as a non-selected byproduct of natural selection. Based on this, conviction aging was regarded as an inevitable phenomenon.
András Szilágyi +3 more
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Evolution of cooperation: combining kin selection and reciprocal altruism into matrix games with social dilemmas. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Darwinian selection should preclude cooperation from evolving; yet cooperation is widespread among organisms. We show how kin selection and reciprocal altruism can promote cooperation in diverse 2×2 matrix games (prisoner's dilemma, snowdrift, and hawk ...
Som B Ale, Joel S Brown, Amy T Sullivan
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Some agreement on kin selection and eusociality? [PDF]
PLoS Biology, 2015 The authors of "Relatedness, Conflict, and the Evolution of Eusociality" respond to objections raised by Martin Nowak and Benjamin Allen.
David C Queller +2 more
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Kin selection and polygyny: can relatedness lower the polygyny threshold? [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2015 Resource polygyny incurs costs of having to share breeding resources for female breeders. When breeding with a relative, however, such costs may be lessened by indirect fitness benefits through kin selection, while benefits from mutualistic behaviour ...
Gaute Grønstøl +3 more
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Infidelity and Kin Selection: Does Cheating Seem as Bad when it's “All in the Family”? [PDF]
Evolutionary Psychology, 2014 The current study explored people's perceptions of how they would feel if their partners cheated on them by having sex with their relatives, such as if a man's wife had sex with his brother.
Bogdan Kostic, Carly A. Yadon
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Effects of soil fertility and toxicity on the performance of Chenopodium quinoa (Willd) plants in kin and non-kin interactions [PDF]
Plant Signaling & BehaviorKin selection theory predicts that closely related organisms may exhibit cooperative behaviors that enhance group fitness despite individual costs. In contrast, the resource partitioning hypothesis posits stronger competition among close relatives due to
Jan Sher, Yun-Bing Zhang, Jiao-Lin Zhang
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