Inclusive fitness
In evolutionary biology and evolutionary psychology, inclusive fitness is the sum of an organism's classical fitness (how many of its own offspring it produces and supports) and the number of equivalents of its own offspring it can add to the population by supporting others.
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Furor Erupts Over Role of Self-Sacrifice in Evolution Wired News The new analysis attacks the core of kin selection by examining how biologists calculate what's called inclusive fitness. Evolutionary biologists measure ... |
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 Discover Magazine (blog) | A box full of Ping-Pong balls: My article on inclusive fitness in NY Times Discover Magazine (blog) On Wednesday, EO Wilson and colleagues at Harvard came out swinging at a major concept in modern evolutionary biology, known as inclusive fitness. ... |
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 New York Times | Scientists Square Off on Evolutionary Value of Helping Relatives New York Times Dr. Hamilton called this new way of tallying reproductive success inclusive fitness. Each organism faces a trade-off between putting effort into raising its ... |
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 Cosmos | Altruism can be explained by natural selection Nature.com Kin selection is based on 'inclusive fitness', the idea that, for example, sterile workers can accrue reproductive benefits by helping their relatives. ... Scientists say natural selection alone can explain eusociality Kin selection is dead, says EO Wilson |
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 Wired News | EO Wilson Proposes New Theory of Social Evolution Wired News The correlation between high genetic relatedness — “inclusive fitness,” in the kin selection argot — and eusociality no longer held. ... |
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Published on Monday 6th of September 2010 11:48:25 AM
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