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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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Stem Cells Are Units of Natural Selection in a Colonial Ascidian
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that stem cell lineages are also legitimate units of natural selection and suggested that histocompatibility genes in Botryllus evolved to protect the body from parasitic stem cells usurping a sexual inheritance.
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Blood is thicker than water: kinship orientation across adulthood.
Franz J. Neyer,Frieder R. Lang +1 more
TL;DR: The authors discuss subjective closeness as 1 proximate cue to kinship, and suggest nepotistic adaptations as powerful mechanisms in social relationships.
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The molecular toolbox: genetic techniques in wildlife ecology and management
TL;DR: Some applications of genetic data are described, processes affecting genetic variation within and among populations are discussed, and an overview of genetic terminology and how genetic variation is measured are provided.
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Evolutionary limits to cooperation in microbial communities
TL;DR: It is suggested that natural selection will often limit cooperative exchanges in microbial communities and that, when exchanges do occur, they can be an inefficient solution to group living.
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Experimental manipulation of helping in a cooperative breeder: helpers ‘pay to stay’ by pre-emptive appeasement
TL;DR: The pay-to-stay hypothesis as discussed by the authors proposes that subordinate group members help dominants in order to be tolerated in the territory and that helpers should be punished if they are not helping sufficiently and should increase helping behaviour thereafter.
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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.