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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”.
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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.

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The moulding of senescence by natural selection.

TL;DR: A basis for the theory that senescence is an inevitable outcome of evolution is established and the model shows that higher fertility will be a primary factor leading to the evolution of higher rates ofsenescence unless the resulting extra mortality is confined to the immature period.
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Value Orientations, Gender, and Environmental Concern:

TL;DR: In this paper, a social-psychological model is developed to examine the proposition that environmentalism represents a new way of thinking, and it assumes that action in support of environmental quality may derive from any of three value orientations: egoistic, social-altruistic, or biospheric and that gender may be implicated in the relation between these orientations and behavior.
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The theory of games and the evolution of animal conflicts

TL;DR: In this article, the evolution of behavior patterns used in animal conflicts is discussed, using models based on the theory of games, and the concept of an evolutionarily stable strategy, or ESS, is defined.
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A simple rule for the evolution of cooperation on graphs and social networks

TL;DR: A surprisingly simple rule is described that is a good approximation for all graphs that are analysed, including cycles, spatial lattices, random regular graphs, random graphs and scale-free networks: natural selection favours cooperation if the benefit of the altruistic act, b, exceeds the average number of neighbours, k, which means b/c > k.
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The Meme Machine

TL;DR: In this article, Blackmore makes a compelling case for the theory that the inner self is merely an illusion created by the memes for the sake of replication, which leads to important discoveries about the nature of inner self.
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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.
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The herring gull's world.