inclusive fitness
Americannoun
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The lowering of individual fitness to enhance the reproductive fitness of a relative and thus one’s inclusive fitness evolves through kin selection.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
In 2010, he turned against inclusive fitness, publishing a paper attacking the concept with Martin A. Nowak of Harvard and Corina E. Tarnita, now at Princeton.
From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2021
In this, Wilson is very much in the minority; Richard Dawkins has called his criticisms of inclusive fitness “downright perverse.”
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 10, 2018
He outlined the framework of something called inclusive fitness, which is the sum of the effects of an individual’s actions on its own and others’ reproduction.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 1, 2015
One of the key ideas to explain this has been kin selection theory or inclusive fitness, which argues that individuals cooperate according to how they are related.
From Slate ● Apr. 30, 2012
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