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Diminishing returns drive altruists to help extended family

Altruism between close relatives can be easily explained. However, paradoxes arise when organisms divert altruism towards more-distantly-related recipients. In some social insects, workers ‘drift’ extensively between colonies and help raise less-related foreign brood, seemingly reducing inclusive fi...

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Autores principales: Kennedy, P., Sumner, S., Botha, P., Welton, N. J., Higginson, A. D., Radford, A. N.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7610556/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33589803
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-01382-z