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Monogamy and high relatedness do not preferentially favor the evolution of cooperation.

BMC evolutionary biology - 4 Mar 2011

Nonacs Peter

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BACKGROUND: Phylogenetic analyses strongly associate nonsocial ancestors of cooperatively-breeding or eusocial species with monogamy. Because monogamy creates high-relatedness family groups, kin selection has been concluded to drive the evolution of cooperative breeding (i.e., the monogamy hypothesis). Although kin selection is criticized as inappropriate for modeling and predicting the evolution of cooperation,...

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PMID: 21375755
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-11-58
PMCID: PMC3058046

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