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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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Moral sentiments and material interests : the foundations of cooperation in economic life
TL;DR: Multidisciplinary research into cooperation and the implications for public policy, drawing on insights from economics, anthropology, biology, social psychology, and sociology, has been carried out as mentioned in this paper.
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Cooperation and competition between relatives.
TL;DR: Competition between relatives can reduce, and even totally negate, the kin-selected benefits of altruism toward relatives, and has demonstrated the generality of the effect of competition between relatives.
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Risks and rewards of nest defence by parent birds
TL;DR: A comprehensive functional theory of nest defence based on life-history theory can help to elucidate many of the patterns observed in this important aspect of the parental care behavior of a wide variety of animals.
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Cooperation and conflict in quorum-sensing bacterial populations
TL;DR: This work examines the social evolution of QS experimentally in the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and shows that although QS can provide a benefit at the group level, exploitative individuals can avoid the cost of producing the QS signal or of performing the cooperative behaviour that is coordinated by QS, and can therefore spread.
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Evolution of the social contract
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the evolution of meaning of meaning in the context of the second edition of their book, The Evolution of Meaning: Acknowledgments and References Index.
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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.