Sentences with phrase «kin selection as»
Biologist E. O. Wilson first put forward this idea of kin selection as an explanation for homosexuality in 1978, but for some time now it has been considered an unlikely scenario.
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It seems as if kin selection could actually damage the group.
A cooperative living structure was more likely to be favoured when both parental genes were shared by siblings, a trait known as «kin selection.»
He suggested that natural selection could encourage altruistic behavior among kin so as to improve the reproductive potential of the «family.»
For social insects, I'm presenting as much evidence as I can summon for each of the two opposing views: Either collateral kin selection is the key, or group selection favored by very unusual environments caused them to be altruistic.
If you look carefully it turns out to be things like kin selection rebranded as group selection.
This is part of the reason that many have suggested that kin selection, or at least its formulation as Hamilton's rule, might not be practically useful.
(The geneticist J.B.S. Haldane, who explored early concepts of kin selection in the 1930s, is sometimes alleged to have joked that, as a human being, he would lay down his life for two brothers or eight cousins.)