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Minus van Baalen

Researcher at École Normale Supérieure

Publications -  48
Citations -  3646

Minus van Baalen is an academic researcher from École Normale Supérieure. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Kin selection. The author has an hindex of 28, co-authored 48 publications receiving 3413 citations. Previous affiliations of Minus van Baalen include University of Amsterdam & Centre national de la recherche scientifique.

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Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality

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- 24 Mar 2011 - 
TL;DR: It is argued that inclusive fitness theory has been of little value in explained the natural world, and that it has led to negligible progress in explaining the evolution of eusociality, but these arguments are based upon a misunderstanding of evolutionary theory and a misrepresentation of the empirical literature.
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The Unit of Selection in Viscous Populations and the Evolution of Altruism

TL;DR: The Pair Approximation technique is used to derive explicit invasion conditions for rare mutants in populations with limited dispersal and the consequences for the evolution of dispersal are discussed and the method may be extended to study evolution in interacting populations.
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Altruism through beard chromodynamics

TL;DR: This work model the green beard effect and finds that if recognition and altruism are always inherited together, the dynamics are highly unstable, leading to the loss of altruism, whereas if the effect is caused by loosely coupled separate genes, altruism is facilitated through beard chromodynamics in which many beard colours co-occur.
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Self-structuring in spatial evolutionary ecology

TL;DR: It is shown that population viscosity is generally beneficial to cooperation, because cooperators can reap additional benefits from being clustered, and many results of kin selection theory can be recovered as emergent properties of spatial ecological dynamics.
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Coevolution of recovery ability and virulence

TL;DR: Here I analyse a simple model for the evolution of the ability to recover from infection, which indicates that if parasites are not allowed to coevolve, the outcome is a single evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS).