Inclusive fitness in evolution

Regis Ferriere () and Richard E. Michod
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Regis Ferriere: Laboratoire Ecologie & Evolution, CNRS UMR 7625, Ecole Normale Superieure, 46 rue d’Ulm
Richard E. Michod: University of Arizona

Nature, 2011, vol. 471, issue 7339, E6-E8

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 For over fifty years, the evolution of social behaviour has been guided by the concept of inclusive fitness as a measure of evolutionary success. Nowak et al.1 argue that inclusive fitness should be abandoned. In so doing, however, they misrepresent the role that inclusive fitness has played in the theory of social evolution by which understanding social behaviour in a variety of disciplines has developed and flourished. By discarding inclusive fitness on the basis of its limitations, they create a conceptual tension which, we argue, is unnecessary, and potentially dangerous for evolutionary biology.

Date: 2011
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