Kinship, greenbeards, and runaway social selection in the evolution of social insect cooperation.

doi:10.1073/pnas.1100297108

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Kinship, greenbeards, and runaway social selection in the evolution of social insect cooperation.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 28 Jun 2011

Nonacs Peter

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Social Hymenoptera have played a leading role in development and testing of kin selection theory. Inclusive fitness models, following from Hamilton's rule, successfully predict major life history characteristics, such as biased sex investment ratios and conflict over parentage of male offspring. However, kin selection models poorly predict patterns of caste-biasing nepotism and reproductive skew within groups...

Topics

Alleles
Animals
Computer Simulation
Evolution, Molecular
Genetic Variation
Hymenoptera
Male
Phenotype
Reproduction
Selection, Genetic
Social Behavior

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PMID: 21690344
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1100297108
PMCID: PMC3131811

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