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Nice to kin and nasty to non-kin: revisiting Hamilton's early insights on eusociality

When helping behaviour is costly, Hamiltonian logic implies that animals need to direct helpful acts towards kin, so that indirect fitness benefits justify the costs. We revisit inferences about nepotism and aggression in Hamilton's 1964 paper to argue that he overestimated the general signific...

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Autori principali: Boomsma, Jacobus J., d'Ettorre, Patrizia
Natura: Artigo
Lingua:Inglês
Pubblicazione: The Royal Society 2013
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Accesso online:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3871339/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24132094
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2013.0444
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