OVERLAPPING GENERATIONS CAN PROMOTE ALTRUISTIC BEHAVIOR

Abstract We use an inclusive fitness model to study the evolution of altruism in a patch-structured population in which there is positive probability of breeder survival from one generation to the next. We find first that breeder survival promotes altruism and second that there is a marked difference between benefits of fecundity and benefits of survival. Under the first altruism is more strongly favored, and under the second altruism is less strongly favored than in a randomly mixing population. Corresponding Editor: L. Stevens

• Publication year

  2000

• Venue

  Evolution; international journal of organic evolution

• Publication date

  2000-08-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2000.tb00549.xPMID 11005283
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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