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Altruism in a volatile world.

Nature - 15 Mar 2018

Kennedy Patrick, Higginson Andrew D, Radford Andrew N, Sumner Seirian

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The evolution of altruism-costly self-sacrifice in the service of others-has puzzled biologists since The Origin of Species. For half a century, attempts to understand altruism have developed around the concept that altruists may help relatives to have extra offspring in order to spread shared genes. This theory-known as inclusive fitness-is founded on a simple inequality termed Hamilton's rule. However,...

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PMID: 29513655
DOI: 10.1038/nature25965
PMCID: PMC5986084

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