inclusive fitness

American  

noun

Biology.

1. the fitness of an individual organism as measured in terms of the survival and reproductive success of its kin, each relative being valued according to the probability of shared genetic information, an offspring or sibling having a value of 50 percent and a cousin 25 percent.

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Example Sentences

Many people have posed explanations for this confusing genetic inheritance, such as the idea from Sabine Eggers and her colleagues that childless women have inclusive fitness because they help raise other women’s children.

From Scientific American

Today, most evolutionary theorists favor the “inclusive fitness” explanation of eusociality, a theory developed by W. D. Hamilton in the early nineteen-sixties.

From The New Yorker

In this, Wilson is very much in the minority; Richard Dawkins has called his criticisms of inclusive fitness “downright perverse.”

From The New Yorker

The rule became the cornerstone of “inclusive fitness theory,” in which fitness can be calculated as a metric of genetic success based on measures of relatedness.

From Scientific American

Sheng-Feng Shen, an associate research fellow at Academia Sinica in Taiwan, believes that Sumner and Kennedy’s results will help future inclusive fitness models resemble models based on population dynamics.

From Scientific American