Kin selection and eusociality

Joan E. Strassmann (), Robert E. Page, Gene E. Robinson and Thomas D. Seeley
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Joan E. Strassmann: Rice University
Robert E. Page: School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University
Gene E. Robinson: and Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Thomas D. Seeley: Cornell University

Nature, 2011, vol. 471, issue 7339, E5-E6

Abstract: Abstract Arising from M. A. Nowak, C. E. Tarnita & E. O. Wilson Nature 466, 1057–1062 (2010)10.1038/nature09205 ; Nowak et al. reply Hamilton1 described a selective process in which individuals affect kin (kin selection), developed a novel modelling strategy for it (inclusive fitness), and derived a rule to describe it (Hamilton’s rule). Nowak et al.2 assert that inclusive fitness is not the best modelling strategy, and also that its production has been “meagre”. The former may be debated by theoreticians, but the latter is simply incorrect. There is abundant evidence to demonstrate that inclusive fitness, kin selection and Hamilton’s rule have been extraordinarily productive for understanding the evolution of sociality.

Date: 2011
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