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Agreement and disagreement in social evolution: insight from David Queller
There was a lot of attention given to an erroneous argument against Hamilton’s theory of inclusive fitness, the role of haplodiploidy, and the evolution of eusociality a couple of years ago. In a recent blog, Masatoshi Nei has resurrected it, … Continue reading
Posted in sociobiology
Tagged additive effects, altruism, game theory, haplodiploidy, inclusive fitness, kin selection, social insects, sociobiology
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The language of sociomicrobiology: report from a meeting for the Forum on Microbial Threats
Last night I got back from an excellent small meeting at the Institute of Medicine‘s Forum on Microbial Threats. You may wonder what on earth I was doing there, but the actual topic of this workshop was The Social Biology … Continue reading
Posted in Microbes, Scientific meetings, Social interactions
Tagged altruism, bacteriocin, colicin, community, forum on microbial threats, inclusive fitness, institute of medicine, kin selection, Microorganism, mutualism, national academy of sciences, population, social biology, sociobiology
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