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Kin selection-mutation balance: a model for the origin, maintenance, and consequences of social cheating.

The American naturalist - 1 Mar 2011

Van Dyken J David, Linksvayer Timothy A, Wade Michael J

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Social conflict, in the form of intraspecific selfish "cheating," has been observed in a number of natural systems. However, a formal, evolutionary genetic theory of social cheating that provides an explanatory, predictive framework for these observations is lacking. Here we derive the kin selection-mutation balance, which provides an evolutionary null hypothesis for the statics and dynamics of cheating. When...

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PMID: 21460538
DOI: 10.1086/658365

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