Demography, altruism, and the benefits of budding.

It is now widely appreciated that competition between kin inhibits the evolution of altruism. In standard population genetics models, it is difficult for indiscriminate altruism towards social partners to be favoured at all. The reason is that while limited dispersal increases the kinship of social...

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Main Authors: Gardner, A, West, SA
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2006