Kin selection: fact and fiction
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Group selection.
Animal dispersion in relation to social behaviour, critical comments by important family members, Dawkins, epideictic display, Evolution of cooperation by multilevel selection, family therapy, Future fitness and helping in social queues, group selection, Group Selection and Kin Selection (1145-1147), Group Selection and Kin Selection (1147), Group selection and kin selection: Two concepts but one process, Hamilton, kin selection, Kin selection group selection and altruism: a controversy without end?, Kin selection: fact and fiction, Maynard Smith, red grouse, territoriality, The challenge hypothesis, VC Wynne-Edwards, WilliamsGroup selection requires group stability and reproductive isolation across generations: examples of group selection in humans may be hard to find. The territoriality of male red grouse, whereby some individuals are sacrificed to maintain overall stability, is a testable model of the distribution of inhibition in human family life. Christmas is an epideictic display in…
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Kin selection and group selection.
Animal dispersion in relation to social behaviour, Evolution of cooperation by multilevel selection, Future fitness and helping in social queues, group selection, Group Selection and Kin Selection (1145-1147), Group Selection and Kin Selection (1147), Group selection and kin selection: Two concepts but one process, kin selection, Kin selection group selection and altruism: a controversy without end?, Kin selection: fact and fiction, Sham nepotism as a result of intrinsic differences in brood variability in ants, Worker nepotism among polygynous antsBlood is thicker than water, but it is not thicker than sperm. The most common beneficiary of a will is the surviving spouse or partner. Kin selection does not explain the large variation between individuals in helping effort, which variation may reflect perceived costs at a given time and in a given place. Competition between…
To be or not to be. 