Group Selection and Kin Selection

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Mar 1964 English Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:Nature, volume 201, pages 1,145-1,147 (issn: 0028-0836, eissn: 1476-4687,

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Authors: J. MAYNARD SMITH;

doi: 10.1038/2011145a0

Group Selection and Kin Selection

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WYNNE-EDWARDS1,2 has argued persuasively for the importance of behaviour in regulating the density of animal populations, and has suggested that since such behaviour favours the survival of the group and not of the individual it must have evolved by a process of group selection. It is the purpose of this communication to consider how far this is likely to be true.

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