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Relatedness, conflict, and the evolution of eusociality.
Published 2015-03-01“…He used it to show that sterile castes could evolve via kin selection, in which a gene for altruistic sterility is favored when the altruism sufficiently benefits relatives carrying the gene. …”
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Fecundity of paternal and maternal non-parental female relatives of homosexual and heterosexual men.
Published 2012-01-01“…Here, we suggest that the empirical support for kin selection and maternal effects cannot account for the low universal frequency and stability of the distribution of homosexuals. …”
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The tragedy of the commons in microbial populations: insights from theoretical, comparative and experimental studies.
Published 2008“…Kin selection can promote the maintenance of efficient metabolism in structured populations with high relatedness by ensuring that genotypes with efficient metabolic pathways gain an indirect fitness benefit from their competitive restraint. …”
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The tragedy of the commons in microbial populations: insights from theoretical, comparative and experimental studies.
Published 2008“…Kin selection can promote the maintenance of efficient metabolism in structured populations with high relatedness by ensuring that genotypes with efficient metabolic pathways gain an indirect fitness benefit from their competitive restraint. …”
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Split sex ratios in the social Hymenoptera: a meta-analysis
Published 2008“…The study of sex allocation in social Hymenoptera (ants, bees, and wasps) provides an excellent opportunity for testing kin-selection theory and studying conflict resolution. …”
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The evolution of division of labour in social insects
Published 2024“…While I found that signatures of kin selection could be detected, results were mixed, and the availability of greater amounts of genomic data will aid future studies in this search.…”
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Social evolution in class-structured populations
Published 2014“…In chapter 5, I analyse the effect of individual quality on kin selection. I find that individual quality has an important impact in kin selection, which can lead to extreme forms of social behaviour. …”
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Do Step- and Biological Grandparents Show Differences in Investment and Emotional Closeness With Their Grandchildren?
Published 2017-02-01“…These findings partially support kin selection theory. We discuss the relevance of factors such as competing demands on grandmothers’ investment in biological and step-grandchildren and grandfathering serving in part as mating effort. …”
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Genetic clusters and sex-biased gene flow in a unicolonial <it>Formica </it>ant
Published 2009-03-01“…The positive relatedness among clustermates suggests that kin selection may still contribute to the maintenance of altruism in unicolonial populations if competition occurs among clusters.…”
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Associative behaviour in Przewalski's horses reintroduced into Mongolia
Published 2019-07-01“…Allogrooming is an important associative behaviour in social mammals that has hygienic and/or social functions and may be mediated by kin selection or reciprocity. Equids exhibit allogrooming and another associative behaviour, stand resting in close proximity. …”
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The Mating Pattern of Captive Naked Mole-Rats Is Best Described by a Monogamy Model
Published 2022-05-01“…Overall, the empirical genetic data are in agreement with the kin selection theory.…”
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Post-reproductive parthenogenetic pea aphids (Acyrthosiphon pisum) are visually identifiable and disproportionately positioned distally to clonal colonies
Published 2016-10-01“…The role of kin-selection in the evolution of post-reproductive life is controversial. …”
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Hornets Have It: A Conserved Olfactory Subsystem for Social Recognition in Hymenoptera?
Published 2017-06-01“…In the course of evolution, such sterile castes are thought to have emerged through the process of kin selection, altruistic traits being transmitted to following generation if they benefit relatives. …”
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Family and familiarity in flies
Published 2018“…In this thesis, I aim to contribute to our knowledge of kin selection and recognition in <em>Drosophila melanogaster</em>, developing its use as a model organism for studying inclusive fitness.…”
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Gender differences in Christmas gift-giving
Published 2014“…As is consistent with kin selection and social network theory, respondents bought gifts of greater value for more closely related kin, and individuals in more proximate social network layers. …”
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Explaining the evolution of warning coloration: secreted secondary defence chemicals may facilitate the evolution of visual aposematic signals.
Published 2009-01-01“…Many of these attempt to circumvent the problem of naïve predators by inferring kin selection or neophobia. Through a stochastic model, we show that a secreted secondary defence chemical can provide selective pressure, on the individual level, towards developing warning coloration. …”
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Evolutionary Explanations of Eating Disorders
Published 2008-12-01“…Evolutionary explanations of eating disorders based on the reproductive suppression hypothesis and its variants derived from kin selection theory and the model of parental manipulation were elaborated. …”
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A few misunderstandings about reciprocal altruism
Published 2010-11-01“…Our contribution can be summarized by the following statements: 1) A temporal contingency between action and reciprocation is not the sole valid evidence for reciprocal altruism; 2) Reciprocity is not (always) cognitively demanding; 3) Kin biases in altruism are not necessarily and entirely due to kin selection; 4) Mutualism can also involve reciprocal partner choice; 5) Biological market theory is an extension of reciprocal altruism theory.…”
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New Biological Morphogenetic Methods for Evolutionary Design of Robot Bodies
Published 2020-06-01“…We present some currently unused morphogenetic mechanisms from evolutionary biology and guidelines for transfer to evolutionary robotics. (1) DNA patterns providing mutation of mutability, lead to canalization of evolvable bauplans, via kin selection. (2) Morphogenetic mechanisms (i) Epigenetic cell lines provide functional cell types, and identification of cell descent. …”
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