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Natural selection of altruism in inelastic viscous homogeneous populations.
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Biological explanations are given of three main uninterpreted theoretical results on the selection of altruism in inelastic viscous homogeneous populations, namely that non-overlapping generations hinder the evolution of altruism, fecundity effects are more conducive to altruism than survival effects, and one demographic regime (so-called death-birth) permits altruism whereas another (so-called birth-death) does not. The central idea is 'circles of compensation', which measure how far the eff...
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- Published
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- 10.1016/j.jtbi.2008.01.021
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- Journal:
- Journal of theoretical biology
- Volume:
- 252
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 694-710
- Publication date:
- 2008-06-05
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1095-8541
- ISSN:
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0022-5193
- URN:
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uuid:faa0c77b-a1d4-4bcc-8887-890180d6224d
- Source identifiers:
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209598
- Local pid:
- pubs:209598
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- English
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- 2008
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