"Runaway" social evolution: reinforcing selection for inbreeding and altruism.

Abstract excerpt

Kin selection theory predicts that altruistic behaviors, those that decrease the fitness of the individual performing the behavior but increase the fitness of the recipient, can increase in frequency if the individuals interacting are closely related. Several studies have shown that inbreeding therefore generally increases the effectiveness of kin selection when fitnesses are linear, additive functions of the...

Topics

• Alleles
• Altruism
• Animals
• Biological Evolution
• Computer Simulation
• Haplotypes
• Inbreeding
• Linkage Disequilibrium
• Models, Genetic