| Title |
Selection for altruism through random drift in variable size populations
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Ecology and Evolution, May 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2148-12-61 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Bahram Houchmandzadeh, Marcel Vallade |
| Abstract |
Altruistic behavior is defined as helping others at a cost to oneself and a lowered fitness. The lower fitness implies that altruists should be selected against, which is in contradiction with their widespread presence is nature. Present models of selection for altruism (kin or multilevel) show that altruistic behaviors can have 'hidden' advantages if the 'common good' produced by altruists is restricted to some related or unrelated groups. These models are mostly deterministic, or assume a frequency dependent fitness. |
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| Researcher | 10 | 23% |
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