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JournalISSN: 0022-5193

Journal of Theoretical Biology 

Elsevier BV
About: Journal of Theoretical Biology is an academic journal published by Elsevier BV. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Population & Medicine. It has an ISSN identifier of 0022-5193. Over the lifetime, 16153 publications have been published receiving 649351 citations. The journal is also known as: J. Theor. Biol..


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TL;DR: A genetical mathematical model is described which allows for interactions between relatives on one another's fitness and a quantity is found which incorporates the maximizing property of Darwinian fitness, named “inclusive fitness”.

14,730 citations

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Amotz Zahavi1
TL;DR: It is suggested that characters which develop through mate preference confer handicaps on the selected individuals in their survival, which are of use to the selecting sex since they test the quality of the mate.

4,744 citations

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TL;DR: Information content may be used as a measure of the diversity of a many-species biological collection whereby the sample size is progressively increased by addition of new quadrats and the mean increment in total diversity that results from enlarging the sample still more provides an estimate of the Diversity per individual in the whole population.

4,415 citations

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TL;DR: The hypothesis that contemporary organisms are also randomly constructed molecular automata is examined by modeling the gene as a binary (on-off) device and studying the behavior of large, randomly constructed nets of these binary “genes”.

4,250 citations

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TL;DR: An antithesis to the view that gregarious behaviour is evolved through benefits to the population or species is presented, and simply defined models are used to show that even in non-gregarious species selection is likely to favour individuals who stay close to others.

3,343 citations

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No. of papers from the Journal in previous years
YearPapers
2023109
2022310
2021269
2020268
2019361
2018414