Sentences with phrase «not kin selection»

Not exact matches

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

Maybe there is some kin selection going there, but that's not what's causing the behavior of staying at home and helping.

He didn't put kin selection into the equation.

But I'm not so sure I pivoted that much on kin selection in Sociobiology.

In dispatches from the Middle East, it is hard not to see the way that kin selection can organize people into tight - knit, warring clans.

The study not only demonstrates that the influence of kin selection may stretch beyond that of nuclear and extended family groups thus promoting co-operation in large social groups, but it is also the first study to show that kin selection may promote the communal construction and maintenance of an animal - built physical structure.

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.

But human altruism can not possibly be controlled by a single gene, and different genes that might produce altruistic behavior probably interact, making the kin selection equation quite a bit more complicated.