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The Genetical Evolution of Social Behaviour. I
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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”.About:
This article is published in Journal of Theoretical Biology.The article was published on 1964-07-01. It has received 14730 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Darwinian Fitness & Kin selection.read more
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Risk of collective failure provides an escape from the tragedy of the commons
TL;DR: It is found that decisions within small groups under high risk and stringent requirements to success significantly raise the chances of coordinating actions and escaping the tragedy of the commons.
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Discriminative grandparental solicitude as reproductive strategy.
Harald A. Euler,Barbara Weitzel +1 more
TL;DR: An ordered discriminative pattern of grandparental caregiving was predicted and confirmed by solid main effects, and a predicted higher correlation for male than for female progenitors between solicitude and phenotypic resemblance could be confirmed.
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To nest communally or not to nest communally: a review of rodent communal nesting and nursing
TL;DR: It is argued that communal Nursing may not be adaptive as mothers may be forced to share milk with nonoffspring in large communal nests (i.e. communal nursing may be a cost associated with communal nesting), and proposed directions for future study that may improve the understanding of communal nesting and nursing in the wild.
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Human inbreeding avoidance: Culture in nature
TL;DR: An interactive model of “culture in nature” is presented, in which culture is seen as coevolving with genes to produce the maxiniization of individual inclusive fitness.
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Intraspecific variation in ant sex ratios and the Trivers-Hare hypothesis
TL;DR: It is predicted that worker‐controlled sex investments in eusocial Hymenoptera should maximize their inclusive fitness by specializing in the production of the sex to which they are relatively most related, i.e., colonies whose workers have a relatedness asymmetry below the population average should specialize in males.
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Animal dispersion in relation to social behaviour
TL;DR: Wynne-Edwards has written this interesting and important book as a sequel to his earlier (1962) Animal Dispersion in Relation to Social Behaviour, and reviewing it has proven to be a valuable task for one who normally is only at the periphery of the group selection controversy.