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Relatedness, Conflict, and the Evolution of Eusociality
The evolution of sterile worker castes in eusocial insects was a major problem in evolutionary theory until Hamilton developed a method called inclusive fitness. He used it to show that sterile castes could evolve via kin selection, in which a gene for altruistic sterility is favored when the altrui...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2015
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4370713/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25799485 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002098 |