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Social selection and the evolution of cooperative groups: the example of the cellular slime moulds.
Integrative biology : quantitative biosciences from nano to macro - 1 Apr 2011
Nanjundiah Vidyanand, Sathe Santosh
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In social selection the phenotype of an individual depends on its own genotype as well as on the phenotypes, and so genotypes, of other individuals. This makes it impossible to associate an invariant phenotype with a genotype: the social context is crucial. Descriptions of metazoan development, which often is viewed as the acme of cooperative social behaviour, ignore or downplay this fact. The implicit...
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