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Selection for altruism through random drift in variable size populations

BACKGROUND: 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 multileve...

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Autores principales: Houchmandzadeh, Bahram, Vallade, Marcel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3478210/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22574999
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-12-61