Sex-biased dispersal of adults mediates the evolution of altruism among juveniles.
Population viscosity has been proposed as an important mechanism for the evolution of cooperation. The idea is that if individuals do not disperse far during the course of their lives, they will tend to interact with their genealogical relatives, which may give kin-selected benefits for cooperation....
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| description | Population viscosity has been proposed as an important mechanism for the evolution of cooperation. The idea is that if individuals do not disperse far during the course of their lives, they will tend to interact with their genealogical relatives, which may give kin-selected benefits for cooperation. However, in the simplest model of population structure, the evolution of cooperation is unaffected by the rate of dispersal, owing to dispersal also mediating competition between social partners. This surprising result has generated much research interest in recent years. Here I show that dispersal does matter if there is a sex difference in dispersal rate, even when the expression of cooperation is not conditional upon the actor's dispersal status or sex. In particular, I show that cooperation among juveniles is relatively favoured when there is a small sex bias in adult dispersal in favour of the sex with the greatest variance in reproductive success, and is relatively disfavoured when this sex bias is large or in the opposite direction. This is because dispersal by individuals of each sex can have different consequences for the genetic structure of the population. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:c872c2bd-0e51-444f-81e3-8ae19f00d8cb2022-03-27T06:52:09ZSex-biased dispersal of adults mediates the evolution of altruism among juveniles.Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:c872c2bd-0e51-444f-81e3-8ae19f00d8cbEnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2010Gardner, APopulation viscosity has been proposed as an important mechanism for the evolution of cooperation. The idea is that if individuals do not disperse far during the course of their lives, they will tend to interact with their genealogical relatives, which may give kin-selected benefits for cooperation. However, in the simplest model of population structure, the evolution of cooperation is unaffected by the rate of dispersal, owing to dispersal also mediating competition between social partners. This surprising result has generated much research interest in recent years. Here I show that dispersal does matter if there is a sex difference in dispersal rate, even when the expression of cooperation is not conditional upon the actor's dispersal status or sex. In particular, I show that cooperation among juveniles is relatively favoured when there is a small sex bias in adult dispersal in favour of the sex with the greatest variance in reproductive success, and is relatively disfavoured when this sex bias is large or in the opposite direction. This is because dispersal by individuals of each sex can have different consequences for the genetic structure of the population. |
| spellingShingle | Gardner, A Sex-biased dispersal of adults mediates the evolution of altruism among juveniles. |
| title | Sex-biased dispersal of adults mediates the evolution of altruism among juveniles. |
| title_full | Sex-biased dispersal of adults mediates the evolution of altruism among juveniles. |
| title_fullStr | Sex-biased dispersal of adults mediates the evolution of altruism among juveniles. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Sex-biased dispersal of adults mediates the evolution of altruism among juveniles. |
| title_short | Sex-biased dispersal of adults mediates the evolution of altruism among juveniles. |
| title_sort | sex biased dispersal of adults mediates the evolution of altruism among juveniles |
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