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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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Homo moralis—Preference evolution under incomplete information and assortative matching
Ingela Alger,Jörgen W. Weibull +1 more
TL;DR: This paper showed that when individuals' preferences are their private information, a convex combination of selfishness and morality stands out as evolutionarily stable, and called individuals with such preferences homo moralis, and showed that the stable degree of morality is determined by the degree of assortativity in the process whereby individuals are matched to interact.
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Multiple mating, sperm utilization, and social evolution
Robert E. Page,Robert A. Metcalf +1 more
TL;DR: Polyandry appears to be widespread in the Hymenoptera and may have evolved as a consequence of a sex determination mechanism that leads to the production of inviable or sterile diploid males.
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Evolutionary Biology and Personality Psychology Toward a Conception of Human Nature and Individual Differences
TL;DR: It is argued that, although substantial problems remain, evolutionary biology can provide one means for identifying relations between individual differences and species-typical characteristics and some of the difficulties of this endeavor are identified.
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Individual contributions to babysitting in a cooperative mongoose, Suricata suricatta
Tim H. Clutton-Brock,P. N. M. Brotherton,M. J. O'Riain,Ashleigh S. Griffin,David Gaynor,L. Sharpe,R. Kansky,Marta B. Manser,G. M. McIlrath +8 more
TL;DR: Large differences in contributions exist between helpers, which are correlated with their age, sex and weight but not with their kinship to the young they are raising, in the cooperative mongoose or meerkat.
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Reconsidering Violence in Simple Human Societies: Homicide among the Gebusi of New Guinea [and Comments and Reply]
Bruce M. Knauft,Martin Daly,Margo Wilson,Leland Donald,George E. E. Morren,Keith F. Otterbein,Marc Howard Ross,H. U. E. Thoden van Velzen,W. van Wetering +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors characterised and empirically tested Gebusi homicide data against the predictions of three theories commonly used to explain aspects of human violence: sociobiological theory, fraternal interest-group theory, and learning/socialization theory.
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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.