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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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Cultural group selection, coevolutionary processes and large-scale cooperation
TL;DR: It is explained how, in contrast to non-cultural species, the details of the authors' evolved cultural learning capacities create the conditions for the cultural evolution of prosociality, and how natural selection is likely to favor prosocial genes that would not be expected in a purely genetic approach.
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Cannibalism in Natural Populations
TL;DR: It is shown that cannibalism is a normal phenomenon in many natural populations, to evaluate its possible roles in influencing demo graphic structure and population processes, and to suggest conditions for, and constraints on, its occurrence.
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On the conflicts between biological and social evolution and between psychology and moral tradition.
TL;DR: These are important issues to which psychology should give much greater attention, and that scientific reasons exist for believing that there can be profound system wisdom in the belief systems the authors' social tradition has provided us with.
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Rethinking the theoretical foundation of sociobiology.
David Wilson,Edward O. Wilson +1 more
TL;DR: This article takes a “back to basics” approach, explaining what group selection is, why its rejection was regarded as so important, and how it has been revived based on a more careful formulation and subsequent research.
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ReviewFeature ReviewHuman cooperation
David G. Rand,Martin A. Nowak +1 more
TL;DR: It is shown that automatic, intuitive responses favor cooperative strategies that reciprocate: it is argued that this behavior reflects the overgeneralization of cooperative strategies learned in the context of direct and indirect reciprocity.
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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.