A quantitative test of Hamilton's rule for the evolution of altruism.

The evolution of altruism is a fundamental and enduring puzzle in biology. In a seminal paper Hamilton showed that altruism can be selected for when rb - c > 0, where c is the fitness cost to the altruist, b is the fitness benefit to the beneficiary, and r is their genetic relatedness. While many...

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Autores principales: Markus Waibel, Dario Floreano, Laurent Keller
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Publicado: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011
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