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Limited indirect fitness benefits of male group membership in a lekking species [PDF]
, 2014 In group living species, individuals may gain the indirect fitness benefits characterizing kin selection when groups contain close relatives. However, tests of kin selection have primarily focused on cooperatively breeding and eusocial species, whereas ...
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Nepotistic patterns of violent psychopathy: evidence for adaptation? [PDF]
, 2012 Psychopaths routinely disregard social norms by engaging in selfish, antisocial, often violent behavior. Commonly characterized as mentally disordered, recent evidence suggests that psychopaths are executing a well-functioning, if unscrupulous strategy ...
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F1000Research, 2016 Kin selection and multilevel selection are two major frameworks in evolutionary biology that aim at explaining the evolution of social behaviors. However, the relationship between these two theories has been plagued by controversy for almost half a ...
Jos Kramer, Joël Meunier
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Extending the range of additivity in using inclusive fitness
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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Involvement of Flagellin in Kin Recognition between Bacillus velezensis Strains
mSystems, 2022 Kin discrimination in nature is an effective way for bacteria to stabilize population cooperation and maintain progeny benefits. However, so far, the research on kin discrimination for Bacillus still has concentrated on “attack and defense” between cells
Yan Liu +8 more
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Altruism can proliferate through group/kin selection despite high random gene flow [PDF]
, 2012 The ways in which natural selection can allow the proliferation of cooperative behavior have long been seen as a central problem in evolutionary biology. Most of the literature has focused on interactions between pairs of individuals and on linear public
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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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Evolutionary Psychology, 2020 Based on kin selection theory, amounts of grandparental investment should reflect the probability to share common genes with offspring. Adoption may represent a special case, however, yet grandparental investment in adopted children has previously been ...
Antti O. Tanskanen +2 more
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Kin selection with twin genetic programming [PDF]
, 2016 In steady state Twin GP both children created by sub-tree crossover and point mutation are used. They are born together and die together. Evolution is little changed.
Langdon, WB
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Kin Selection and Its Critics [PDF]
BioScience, 2014 Hamilton's theory of kin selection is the best-known framework for understanding the evolution of social behavior but has long been a source of controversy in evolutionary biology. A recent critique of the theory by Nowak, Tarnita, and Wilson sparked a new round of debate, which shows no signs of abating.
Birch, Jonathan, Okasha, Samir
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