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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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The 'Out of Africa' Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development
Quamrul H. Ashraf,Oded Galor +1 more
TL;DR: The level of genetic diversity within a society is found to have a hump-shaped effect on development outcomes in both the pre-colonial and the modern era, reflecting the trade-off between the beneficial and the detrimental effects of diversity on productivity.
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Life Histories, Blood Revenge, and Warfare in a Tribal Population
TL;DR: A theory of tribalviolence is presented showing how homicide, revenge, kinship obligations, and warfare are linked and why reproductive variables must be included in explanations of tribal violence and warfare.
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Niche construction, biological evolution, and cultural change.
TL;DR: In this model, phenotypes have a much more active role in evolution than generally conceived and sheds light on hominid evolution, on the evolution of culture, and on altruism and cooperation.
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Optimality theory in evolutionary biology
TL;DR: Optimization models help to test the insight into the biological constraints that influence the outcome of evolution by improving the understanding about adaptations and demonstrating that natural selection produces optimal solutions.
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Reintroducing group selection to the human behavioral sciences
David Wilson,Elliott Sober +1 more
TL;DR: It is shown that the rejection of group selection was based on a misplaced emphasis on genes as “replicators” which is in fact irrelevant to the question of whether groups can be like individuals in their functional organization, and makes it clear that group selection is an important force to consider in human evolution.
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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.