To work or not to work

David C. Queller ()
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Nature, 2006, vol. 444, issue 7115, 42-43

Abstract: Coercion, not kinship, often determines who acts altruistically in an insect colony. But underlying affinities for kin emerge when coercion is removed: kin selection is what turns suppressed individuals into altruists.

Date: 2006
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