Competitive environments sustain costly altruism with negligible assortment of interactions
Competition hinders the evolution of altruism amongst kin when beneficiaries gain at the expense of competing relatives. Altruism is consequently deemed to require stronger kin selection, or trait-selected synergies, or elastic population regulation, to counter this effect. Here we contest the view...
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| Language: | English |
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2013-10-03.
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