kin selection
collocation in Englishmeaningsofkinandselection
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kin
noun[plural]
uk/kɪn/us/kɪn/
old-fashioned
family ...
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selection
noun
uk/sɪˈlek.ʃən/us/səˈlek.ʃən/
the act of choosing someone ...
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(Definition ofkinandselectionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofkin selection
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The strategies in question could have evolved through group selection in essentially the same way they could have evolved throughkinselection.
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The depth of sharing with relatives (and the asymmetry in the direction of young households) is highly evocative ofkinselection-based nepotism.
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Gurven seems to lose interest inkinselectionat this point and says no more about it, even in the conclusions.
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Obviously, for thiskinselectionto actually work, the presence of the gene must be somehow perceivable and recognized.
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He points out that giving to kin is not necessarilykinselectionbecause near neighbors might just happen to be kin.
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My assessment is thatkinselectionwas abandoned prematurely.
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The evolutionary models ofkinselectionand of reciprocal altruism are unstable and should be avoided.
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These results show that syntax can be selected for through a combined effect ofkinselectionand group selection.
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I will address the limitations of path analysis below and suggest thatkinselectionwas abandoned prematurely.
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It seems obvious thatkinselectionplays a role in human food transfers, because parents feed their children.
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Symbiotic societies (chapter 17) composed of individuals belonging to different species have certainly not evolved bykinselection.
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This article attempts to organize available crosscultural evidence pertaining to several contentious evolutionary models:kinselection, reciprocal altruism, tolerated scrounging, and costly signaling.
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Kinselectionworks because cooperating kin-groups are more productive than non-cooperating ones.
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Besideskinselectionand reciprocity, we remain sceptical as to how much group selection of genetic variation actually occurs in nature, but this is an empirical issue.
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Such interactions cannot be understood within the framework ofkinselectiontheory (inclusive fitness), since the interacting individuals are not related at all in this case.
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Kinselectionpredicts that as the coefficient of relatedness between infecting parasites decreases, the benefits of competition to individual genotypes increases.
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Kinselectionpredicts that the fitness advantages of within-host competitive ability rises as the relatedness between infecting genotypes decreases.
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Group selection, likekinselection, is a mechanism that is capable of explaining real altruism.
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Gurven attempts to organize the data on human food transfers and relate them to four nonexclusive evolutionary models:kinselection, reciprocal altruism, tolerated scrounging, and costly signaling.
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