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Altruism can be explained by natural selection

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Evolutionary biologists overturn long-held kin-selection theory.

Altruistic behaviour, such as sterile worker ants caring for the offspring of their queen, evolves only between related individuals through what is known as kin selection — or so many evolutionary biologists have thought since the 1960s.

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  1. Nowak, M. A., Tarnita, C. E. & Wilson, E. O. Nature doi:10.1038/nature09205 (2010).

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  1. Natasha Gilbert
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Gilbert, N. Altruism can be explained by natural selection. Nature (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2010.427

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