Sentences with phrase «called kin selection»

The biologist William D. Hamilton made an end run around this problem in 1964 by invoking a strategy that Maynard Smith had called kin selection.

Animal studies have revealed that many critters favor conspecifics that resemble them, a phenomenon called kin selection.

Nowak disagrees: He argues that so - called kin selection is just one of several mechanisms driving a more general impulse toward cooperation.

Not exact matches

Your new paper states that the mathematical underpinning of kin selection, called the Hamilton inequality, does not work.

For instance, the theory of kin selection — helping your relatives so your genes will be reproduced — can be illustrated by a formula called «Hamilton's rule,» which explains when a behavior or trait will be favored by natural selection.