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The evolution of cooperation by the Hankshaw effect.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Jun 2016
Hammarlund Sarah P, Connelly Brian D, Dickinson Katherine J, Kerr Benjamin
Abstract excerpt
The evolution of cooperation-costly behavior that benefits others-faces one clear obstacle. Namely, cooperators are always at a competitive disadvantage relative to defectors, individuals that reap the benefits, but evade the cost of cooperation. One solution to this problem involves genetic hitchhiking, where the allele encoding cooperation becomes linked to a beneficial mutation, allowing cooperation to rise in...
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