Routes to indirect fitness in cooperatively breeding vertebrates: kin discrimination and limited dispersal.

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Hamilton demonstrated that the evolution of cooperative behaviour is favoured by high relatedness, which can arise through kin discrimination or limited dispersal (population viscosity). These two processes are likely to operate with limited overlap: kin discrimination is beneficial when variation in relatedness is higher, whereas limited dispersal results in less variable and higher average relatedness, reducing selection for kin discrimination. However, most empirical work on eukaryotes has...

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Authors: Cornwallis, C; West, SA; Griffin, A

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Journal of evolutionary biology
• Volume: 22
• Issue: 12
• Pages: 2445-2457
• Publication date: 2009-12-01
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2009.01853.x
• EISSN: 1420-9101
• ISSN: 1010-061X
• Language: English
• Keywords: Animals; Biological Evolution; Mammals; Sexual Behavior, Animal; Birds; Social Behavior