Hamilton’s rule predicts anticipated social support in humans

Hamilton’s rule predicts that individuals should be more likely to altruistically help closer kin and this theory is well supported from zoological studies of nonhumans. In contrast, there is a paucity of relevant human data. This is largely due to the difficulties of either experimentally testing r...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Burton-Chellew, M, Dunbar, RIM
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2014