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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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Sociobiology as an adaptationist program
TL;DR: If sociobiology is to become a real science instead of idle speculation, it must abandon the tautological adaptationist program which is untestable.
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Do you believe in atheists? Distrust is central to anti-atheist prejudice.
TL;DR: These 6 studies are the first to systematically explore the social psychological underpinnings of anti-atheist prejudice, and converge to indicate the centrality of distrust in this phenomenon.
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Genetic similarity, human altruism, and group selection
TL;DR: A new theory of attraction and liking based on kin selection suggests that people detect genetic similarity in others in order to give preferential treatment to those who are most similar to themselves as mentioned in this paper.
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Parentage and the evolution of parental behavior
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The social risk hypothesis of depressed mood: evolutionary, psychosocial, and neurobiological perspectives.
TL;DR: The authors hypothesize that depressed states evolved to minimize risk in social interactions in which individuals perceive that the ratio of their social value to others, and their social burden on others, is at a critically low level.
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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.