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Kin selection and altruism [PDF]
Current Biology, 2019 Natural selection is predicated on the 'struggle for existence': life is short, cruel and, whether through predation, disease or starvation, often ends traumatically. It would seem that in such a dog-eat-dog world, organisms ought to act selfishly, and avoid reducing their fitness (expected survival and reproductive success) by expending time and ...
Kay, T., Lehmann, L., Keller, L.
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Socially Enforced Nepotism: How Norms and Reputation Can Amplify Kin Altruism. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Kin selection, which can lead organisms to behave altruistically to their genetic relatives, works differently when-as is often the case in human societies-altruism can be boosted by social pressure.
Doug Jones
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Kinship underlies costly cooperation in Mosuo villages [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2018 The relative importance of social evolution theories such as kin selection, direct reciprocity and need-based transfers in explaining real-world cooperation is the source of much debate.
Matthew Gwynfryn Thomas +5 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Eusociality represents an extreme form of social behavior characterized by a reproductive division of labor. Eusociality necessarily evolved through kin selection, which requires interactions among related individuals.
Andrew V. Suarez +2 more
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Sex-biased dispersal, kin selection and the evolution of sexual conflict. [PDF]
, 2015 This work was supported by Portuguese funds from Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia through cE3c Unit FCT funding UID/BIA/00329/2013 and through SAMV Post-Doctoral Research Grant (SFRH/BPD/66042/2009), and by a Natural Environment Research Council ...
Varela, Susana +2 more
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Joint evolution of multiple social traits: a kin selection analysis [PDF]
, 2010 General models of the evolution of cooperation, altruism and other social behaviours have focused almost entirely on single traits, whereas it is clear that social traits commonly interact.
Brown, Sam P., Taylor, Peter D.
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The group selection–inclusive fitness equivalence claim: not true and not relevant
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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Hamilton's rule and its discontents [PDF]
, 2013 In an incendiary 2010 Nature article, M. A. Nowak, C. E. Tarnita and E. O. Wilson present a savage critique of the best known and most widely used framework for the study of social evolution, W. D. Hamilton’s theory of kin selection.
Birch, Jonathan
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Does the kin orientation of a British woman’s social network influence her entry into motherhood? [PDF]
, 2013 BACKGROUND The influence of family and friends on an individual's fertility has long been an important topic within demography. Researchers who focus on social network effects and evolutionary demography have shown a renewed interest in this issue in ...
Mathews, Paul, Sear, Rebecca
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Kin-Mediated Male Choice and Alternative Reproductive Tactics in Spider Mites
Biology, 2020 Optimal outbreeding and kin selection theories state that the degree of kinship is a fundamental determinant in any mating system. However, the role of kinship in male choice and alternative reproductive tactics (ARTs) is poorly known.
Peter Schausberger, Yukie Sato
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