Kin Against Kin: Internal Co-selection and the Coherence of Kinship Typologies
Biological Theory, 2021 Across the world people in different societies structure their family relationships in many different ways. These relationships become encoded in their languages as kinship terminology, a word set that maps variably onto a vast genealogical grid of ...
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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 ...
Craig eSheriff +7 more
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Selfish or altruistic? An analysis of alarm call function in wild capuchin monkeys, Cebus apella nigritus [PDF]
, 2008 Alarm calls facilitate some antipredatory benefits of group living but may endanger the caller by attracting the predator's attention. A number of hypotheses invoking kin selection and individual selection have been proposed to explain how such behaviour
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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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Influence of kinship and MHC class II genotype on visual traits in zebrafish larvae (Danio rerio). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Kin recognition can drive kin selection and the evolution of social behaviour. In zebrafish (Danio rerio, Hamilton 1822), kin recognition is based on olfactory and visual imprinting processes.
Cornelia Hinz +4 more
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Natural selection. III. Selection versus transmission and the levels of selection [PDF]
, 2011 George Williams defined an evolutionary unit as hereditary information for which the selection bias between competing units dominates the informational decay caused by imperfect transmission.
Frank, Steven A.
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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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Sexual selection and the evolution of altruism: males are more altruistic and cooperative towards attractive females [PDF]
, 2016 Explaining altruism through an evolutionary lens has been a challenge for evolutionary theorists. Where altruism towards kin is well understood through kin selection, altruism towards non-kin is an evolutionary puzzle.
Bhogal, Manpal Singh +2 more
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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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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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