Genetic hitchhiking can promote the initial spread of strong altruism

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Santos, Mauro ^a   Szathmáry, Eörs ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (Hungary)

^c EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^d Parmenides Center for the Study of Thinking   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ALTRUISM; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC HITCHHIKING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HETEROSIS; HUMAN; KIN SELECTION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; POLYMORPHIC LOCUS; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION SIZE; SOCIAL HETEROSIS; ALLELE; ALTRUISM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION;

ALLELES; ALTRUISM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; MODELS, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS); VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 55649099230     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-8-281     Document Type: Article

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