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Interacting phenotypes and the evolutionary process. III. Social evolution.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Sept 2010
McGlothlin Joel W, Moore Allen J, Wolf Jason B, Brodie Edmund D
Abstract excerpt
Interactions among conspecifics influence social evolution through two distinct but intimately related paths. First, they provide the opportunity for indirect genetic effects (IGEs), where genes expressed in one individual influence the expression of traits in others. Second, interactions can generate social selection when traits expressed in one individual influence the fitness of others. Here, we present a...
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