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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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Brood reduction in birds: Selection for fratricide, infanticide and suicide?
TL;DR: Kin selection and inclusive fitness concepts are used to formulate a general theory accounting for the phenomenon of brood reduction in birds, which shows that as starvation mortality increases, selection favours at first fratricide plus infanticide, and finally fr atricide, infanticides and suicide.
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Growing up in a Bubble: Using Germ-Free Animals to Assess the Influence of the Gut Microbiota on Brain and Behavior
Pauline Luczynski,Karen-Anne McVey Neufeld,Clara Seira Oriach,Gerard Clarke,Timothy G. Dinan,John F. Cryan +5 more
TL;DR: Alternative and complementary strategies to the germ-free model are warranted and include antibiotic treatment to create microbiota-deficient animals at distinct time points across the lifespan.
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Evolution of Sociality in Insects
Norman Lin,Charles D. Michener +1 more
TL;DR: It is the view that a whole series of factors acting jointly or alternately is responsible for the numerous origins of sociality in Hymenoptera, compared to only one in all the other insects.
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The Evolution of Ethnocentrism.
Ross A. Hammond,Robert Axelrod +1 more
TL;DR: For example, the authors suggests that a predisposition to favor in-groups can be easily explained by a nearly universal syndrome of attitudes and behaviors, typically including in-group favoritism.
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Selfish Sentinels in Cooperative Mammals
Tim H. Clutton-Brock,M. J. O'Riain,P. N. M. Brotherton,David Gaynor,R. Kansky,Ashleigh S. Griffin,Marta B. Manser +6 more
TL;DR: Support is provided for the theory that guarding may be an individual's optimal activity once its stomach is full if no other animal is on guard by showing that, in groups of meerkats, animals guard from safe sites, and solitary individuals as well as group members spend part of their time on guard.
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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.