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How life history and demography promote or inhibit the evolution of helping behaviours.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences - 12 Sept 2010
Lehmann Laurent, Rousset François
Abstract excerpt
In natural populations, dispersal tends to be limited so that individuals are in local competition with their neighbours. As a consequence, most behaviours tend to have a social component, e.g. they can be selfish, spiteful, cooperative or altruistic as usually considered in social evolutionary theory. How social behaviours translate into fitness costs and benefits depends considerably on life-history features,...
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