How life history and demography promote or inhibit the evolution of helping behaviours

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 365, Issue 1553, 2010, Pages 2599-2617

  Lehmann, Laurent ^a   Rousset, Fraņois ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

Demography; Inclusive fitness; Life history; Relatedness; Social behaviour; Spatial structure

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; DEMOGRAPHY; DISPERSAL; EUSOCIALITY; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; FITNESS; LIFE HISTORY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; RELATEDNESS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 77957270329     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0138     Document Type: Review

References (122)

1. Ajar, E. 2003 Analysis of disruptive selection in subdivided populations. BMC Evol. Biol. 3, 22. (doi:10.1186/1471-2148-3-22) (Pubitemid 38761985)
2. Alizon, S. & Taylor, P. D. 2008 Empty sites can promote altruistic behavior. Evolution 62, 1335-1344. (doi:10. 1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00369.x)
3. Aoki, K. 1982 A condition for group selection to prevail over counteracting individual selection. Evolution 36, 832-842. (doi:10.2307/2407896)
4. Axelrod, R. & Hamilton, W. D. 1981 The evolution of cooperation. Science 211, 1390-1396. (doi:10.1126/ science.7466396)
5. Axelrod, R., Hammond, R. A. & Grafen, A. 2004 Altruism via kin-selection strategies that rely on arbitrary tags with which they coevolve. Evolution 58, 1833-1838. (doi:10.1554/04-013)
6. Binmore, K., Piccione, M. & Samuelson, L. 1997 Evolutionary stability in alternating-offers bargaining games. J. Econ. Theory 80, 257-291.
7. Bourke, A. & Franks, N. 1995 Social evolution in ants. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
8. Brosnan, S. F. & Bshary, R. 2010 Cooperation and deception: from evolution to mechanisms. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 365, 2593-2598. (doi:10.1098/rstb.2010.0155)
9. Bshary, R., Grutter, A. S., Willener, A. S. T. & Leimar, O. 2008 Pairs of cooperating cleaner fish provide better service quality than singletons. Nature 455, 964-967. (doi:10.1038/nature07184)
10. Burger, R. 2000 The mathematical theory of selection, recombination, and mutation. New York, NY: John Wiley and Sons.
11. Caswell, H. 2000 Matrix population models. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates.
12. Clark, C. W. & Mangel, M. 1986 The evolutionary advantages of group foraging. Theor. Popul. Biol. 30, 45-75. (doi:10.1016/0040-5809(86)90024-9)
13. Clobert, J., Danchin, E., Dhondt, A. A. & Nichols, J. D. (eds) 2001 Dispersal. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
14. Clutton-Brock, T. 2002 Breeding together: kin selection and mutualism in cooperative vertebrates. Science 296, 69-72. (doi:10.1126/science.296.5565.69) (Pubitemid 34280061)
15. Comins, H. N., Hamilton, W. D. & May, R. M. 1980 Evolutionarily stable dispersal strategies. J. Theor. Biol. 82, 205-230. (doi:10.1016/0022- 5193(80)90099-5)
16. Connor, R. C. 2010 Cooperation beyond the dyad: on simple models and a complex society. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 365, 2687-2697. (doi:10.1098/rstb.2010. 0150)
17. Cornwallis, C. K., West, S. A. & Griffin, A. S. 2009 Routes to indirect fitness in cooperatively breeding vertebrates: kin discrimination and limited dispersal. J. Evol. Biol. 22, 2445-2457. (doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2009. 01853.x)
18. Crow, J. F. & Kimura, M. 1970 An introduction to population genetics theory. New York, NY: Harper and Row.
19. Dawkins, R. 1982 The extended phenotype. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
20. Day, T. & Taylor, P. D. 1997 Hamilton's rule meets the Hamiltonian: kin selection on dynamic characters. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 264, 639-644. (doi:10.1098/rspb. 1997.0090)
21. Day, T. & Taylor, P. D. 2000 A generalization ofPontryagin's maximum principle for dynamic evolutionary games among relatives. Theor. Popul. Biol. 57, 339-356. (doi:10.1006/tpbi.2000.1459) (Pubitemid 30597332)
22. El Mouden, C. & Gardner, A. 2008 Nice natives and mean migrants: the evolution of dispersal-dependent social behaviour in viscous populations. J. Evol. Biol. 21, 1480-1491. (doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2008.01614.x)
23. Enquist, M. & Ghirlanda, S. 2005 Neural networks and animal behavior. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
24. Eshel, I. 1972 On the neighbor effect and the evolution of altruistic traits. Theor. Popul. Biol. 11, 258-277. (doi:10. 1016/0040-5809(72)90003-2)
25. Eshel, I. 1996 On the changing concept of evolutionary population stability as a reflection of a changing point of view in the quantitative theory of evolution. J. Math. Biol. 34, 485-510. (doi:10.1007/BF02409747)
26. Ewens, W. J. 2004 Mathematical population genetics. New York, NY: Springer.
27. Fisher, R. A. 1930 The genetical theory ofnatural selection. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press.
28. Frank, S. A. 1997 The Price equation, Fisher's fundamental theorem, kin selection, and causal analysis. Evolution 51, 1712-1729. (doi:10.2307/2410995)
29. Frank, S. A. 1998 Foundations ofsocial evolution. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
30. Gandon, S. & Rousset, F. 1999 Evolution of stepping-stone dispersal rates. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 221, 2507-2513. (doi:10.1098/rspb.1999.0953)
31. Gardner, A. 2010 Sex-biased dispersal of adults mediates the evolution of altruism among juveniles. J. Theor. Biol. 262, 339-345. (doi:10.1016/j.jtbi. 2009.09.028)
32. Gardner, A. & West, S. A. 2006 Demography, altruism, and the benefits of budding. J. Evol. Biol. 19, 1707-1716. (doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2006.01104. x)
33. Gardner, A., West, S. A. & Barton, N. 2007 The relation between multilocus population genetics and social evolution theory. Am. Nat. 169, 207-226. (doi:10.1086/ 510602)
34. Geritz, S. A. H., Metz, J. A. J., Kisdi, E. & Meszena, G. 1997 Dynamics of adaptation and evolutionary branching. Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 2024-2027. (doi:10.1103/ PhysRevLett.78.2024)
35. Gillespie, J. H. 1975 Natural selection for within-generation variance in offspring number 2. Discrete haploid models. Genetics 81, 403-413.
36. Gillespie, J. H. 1977 Natural selection for variances in offspring numbers-new evolutionary principle. Am. Nat. 111, 1010-1014. (doi:10.1086/283230)
37. Giraldeau, L. & Caraco, T. 2000 Social foraging theory. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
38. Grafen, A. 1984 Natural selection, kin selection and group selection. In Behavioral ecology: an evolutionary approach (eds J. R. Krebs & N. Davies), pp. 62-84. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific.
39. Grafen, A. 1985 A geometric view of relatedness. In Oxford surveys in evolutionary biology (eds R. Dawkins & M. Ridley), pp. 28-90. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
40. Grafen, A. 2007 An inclusive fitness analysis of altruism on a cyclical network. J. Evol. Biol. 20, 2278-2283. (doi:10. 1111/j.1420-9101.2007.01413.x)
41. Grimmett, G. & Stirzaker, D. 2001 Probability and random processes. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
42. Haig, D. 1997 Parental antagonism, relatedness asymmetries, and genomic imprinting. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 264, 1657-1662. (doi:10.1098/rspb.1997.0230)
43. Haldane, J. B. S. 1932 The causes of evolution. London, UK: Longmans, Green & Co.
44. Hamilton, W. D. 1964a The genetical evolution of social behaviour, I. J. Theor. Biol. 7, 1-16. (doi:10.1016/0022-5193(64)90038-4)
45. Hamilton, W. D. 1964b The genetical evolution of social behaviour, II. J. Theor. Biol. 7, 17-52. (doi:10.1016/ 0022-5193(64)90039-6)
46. Hamilton, W. D. 1970 Selfish and spiteful behavior in an evolutionary model. Nature 228, 1218-1220. (doi:10. 1038/2281218a0)
47. Hamilton, W. D. 1971 Selection of selfish and altruistic behaviour in some extreme models. In Man and beast: comparative social behavior (eds J. Eisenberg & W. Dillon), pp. 59-91. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institutions Press.
48. Hamilton, W. D. 1979 Wingless and fighting males in fig wasps and other insects. In Sexual selection and reproductive competition in insects (eds M. Blum & N. Blum), pp. 167-220. New York, NY: Academic Press.
49. Hanski, I. & Gaggiotti, O. E. 2004 Ecology, genetics and evolution of metapopulations. Oxford, UK: Elsevier Academic Press.
50. Hanski, I. & Gilpin, M. 1997 Metapopulation biology: ecology, genetics, and evolution. New York: Academic Press.
51. Hardy, I. C. W. (ed.) 2002 Sex-ratios: concepts and research methods. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
52. Hauert, C. & Doebeli, M. 2004 Spatial structure often inhibits the evolution of cooperation in the snowdrift game. Nature 428, 643-646. (doi:10.1038/nature02360)
53. Helantera, H., Strassmann, J. E., Carrillo, J. & Queller, D. C. 2009 Unicolonial ants: where do they come from, what are they and where are they going? Trends Ecol. Evol. 24, 341-349. (doi:10.1016/j.tree.2009.01.013)
54. Irwin, A. J. & Taylor, P. D. 2001 Evolution of altruism in stepping-stone populations with overlapping generations. Theor. Popul. Biol. 60, 315-325. (doi:10.1006/tpbi.2001. 1533)
55. Jansen, V. A. A. & van Baalen, M. 2006 Altruism through beard chromodynamics. Nature 440, 663-666. (doi:10. 1038/nature04387)
56. Johnstone, R. A. 2008 Kin selection, local competition, and reproductive skew. Evolution 62, 2592-2599. (doi:10. 1086/589899)
57. Johnstone, R. A. & Cant, M. A. 2008 Sex differences in dispersal and the evolution of helping and harming. Am. Nat. 172, 318-330.
58. Kirkpatrick, M., Johnson, T. & Barton, N. 2002 General models ofmultilocus evolution. Genetics 161, 1727-1750.
59. Koella, J. C. 2000 The spatial spread of altruism versus the evolutionary response of egoists. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 267, 1979-1985. (doi:10.1098/rspb. 2000.1239)
60. Kokko, H., Johnstone, R. A. & Clutton-Brock, T. H. 2001 The evolution of cooperative breeding through group augmentation. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 268, 187-196. (doi:10.1098/rspb.2000.1349)
61. Kummerli, R., Gardner, A. & West, S. A. a. 2009a Limited dispersal, budding dispersal, and cooperation: an experimental study. Evolution 63, 939-949. (doi:10. 1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00548.x)
62. Kummerli, R., Griffin, A. S., West, S. A., Buckling, A. & Harrison, F. 2009b Viscous medium promotes cooperation in the pathogenic bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Proc. R. Soc. B 276, 3531-3538. (doi:10. 1098/rspb.2009.0861)
63. Le Galliard, J., Ferriere, R. & Dieckmann, U. 2003 The adaptive dynamics of altruism in spatially heterogeneous populations. Evolution 57, 1-17. (doi:10.1111/j.0014-3820.2003.tb00211.x)
64. Lehmann, L. 2007 The evolution of trans-generational altruism: kin selection meets niche construction. J. Evol. Biol. 20, 181-189. (doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2006.01202.x) (Pubitemid 44968168)
65. Lehmann, L. & Balloux, F. 2007 Natural selection on fecundity variance in subdivided populations: kin selection meets bet hedging. Genetics 176, 361-377. (doi:10.1534/genetics.106.066910) (Pubitemid 350021032)
66. Lehmann, L. & Keller, L. 2006 The evolution of cooperation and altruism: a general framework and a classification of models. J. Evol. Biol. 19, 1365-1376. (doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2006.01119.x)
67. Lehmann, L., Perrin, N. & Rousset, F. 2006 Population demography and the evolution of helping behaviors. Evolution 60, 1137-1151. (doi:10.1554/05-655.1) (Pubitemid 44804473)
68. Lehmann, L., Rousset, F., Roze, D. & Keller, L. 2007 Strong reciprocity or strong ferocity? A population genetic view of the evolution of altruistic punishment. Am. Nat. 170, 21-36. (doi:10.1086/518568) (Pubitemid 46984574)
69. Lehmann, L., Ravigne, V. & Keller, L. 2008 Population viscosity can promote the evolution of altruism sterile helpers and eusociality. Proc. R. Soc. B 275, 1887-1895. (doi:10.1098/rspb.2008.0276) (Pubitemid 351915157)
70. Leimar, O. 1997 Repeated games: a state space approach. J. Theor. Biol. 184, 471-498.(doi:10.1006/jtbi.1996.0286) (Pubitemid 27190353)
71. Leimar, O. & Hammerstein, P. 2010 Cooperation for direct fitness benefits. Phi. Trans. R. Soc. B 365, 2619-2626. (doi:10.1098/rstb.2010.0116)
72. Lessard, S. & Ladret, V. 2007 The probability of fixation of a single mutant in an exchangeable selection model. J. Math. Biol. 54, 721-744. (doi:10.1007/s00285-007-0069-7) (Pubitemid 46731522)
73. Lion, S. & Gandon, S. 2009 Habitat saturation and the spatial evolutionary ecology of altruism. J. Evol. Biol. 22, 1487-1502. (doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2009.01769.x)
74. Lion, S. & van Baalen, M. 2007 From infanticide to parental care: why spatial structure can help adults be good parents. Am. Nat. 170, E26-E46. (doi:10.1086/519462)
75. Lynch, M. & Walsh, B. 1998 Genetics and analysis of quantitative traits. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates.
76. Malécot, G. 1973 Génétique des population diploïdes naturelle dans le cas d'un seul locus. III-Parenté, mutations et migration. Ann. Génét. Select. Anim. 5, 333-361. (doi:10.1186/1297-9686-5-3-333)
77. Malécot, G. 1975 Heterozygosity and relationship in regularly subdivided populations. Theor. Popul. Biol. 8, 212-241. (doi:10.1016/0040- 5809(75)90033-7)
78. Maynard-Smith, J. 1982 Evolution and the theory ofgames. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
79. McFarland, D. & Houston, A. 1981 Quantitative ethology: the state space approach. Boston, MA: Pitman.
80. McNamara, J. 1999 Incorporation rules for responding into evolutionary games. Nature 401, 368-371. (doi:10.1038/ 43869)
81. Nakamaru, M., Matsuda, H. & Iwasa, Y. 1997 The evolution of cooperation in a lattice-structured population. J. Theor. Biol. 184, 65-81. (doi:10.1006/jtbi.1996.0243) (Pubitemid 27058691)
82. Odling-Smee, F. J., Laland, K. L. & Feldman, M. W. 2003 Niche construction. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
83. Ohtsuki, H., Hauert, C., Lieberman, E. & Nowak, M. A. 2006 A simple rule for the evolution of cooperation on graphs and social networks. Nature 441, 502-505. (doi:10.1038/nature04605) (Pubitemid 44050150)
84. Pepper, J. W. 2000 Relatedness in trait group models of social evolution. J. Theor. Biol. 206, 355-368. (doi:10. 1006/jtbi.2000.2132)
85. Platt, T. G. & Bever, J. D. 2009 Kin competition and the evolution of cooperation. Trends Ecol. Evol. 24, 370-377. (doi:10.1016/j.tree.2009.02.009)
86. Queller, D. C. 1992 A general model for kin selection. Evolution 46, 376-380. (doi:10.2307/2409858)
87. Queller, D. C. 1994 Genetic relatedness in viscous populations. Evol. Ecol. 8, 70-73. (doi:10.1007/BF01237667)
88. Queller, D. C. & Goodnight, K. F. 1989 Estimating relatedness using genetic markers. Evolution 43, 258-275. (doi:10.2307/2409206)
89. Rogers, A. R. 1990 Group selection by selective emigration: the effects of migration and kin structure. Am. Nat. 135, 398-413. (doi:10.1086/285053) (Pubitemid 20429803)
90. Ronce, O. 2007 How does it feel to be like a rolling stone? Ten questions about dispersal evolution. Ann. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst. 38, 231-253. (doi:10.1146/annurev.ecolsys. 38.091206.095611)
91. Rousset, F. 2002 Inbreeding and relatedness coefficients: what do they measure? Heredity 88, 371-380. (doi:10. 1038/sj.hdy.6800065)
92. Rousset, F. 2004 Genetic structure and selection in subdivided populations. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
93. Rousset, F. 2006 Separation of time scales, fixation probabilities and convergence to evolutionarily stable states under isolation by distance. Theor. Popul. Biol. 69, 165-179. (doi:10.1016/j.tpb.2005.08.008) (Pubitemid 43143215)
94. Rousset, F. 2007 Inferences from spatial population genetics. In Handbook of statistical genetics (eds D. J. Balding, M. Bishop & C. Cannings), 3rd edn, pp. 945-979. Chiche-ster, UK: Wiley.
95. Rousset, F. & Billiard, S. 2000 A theoretical basis for measures of kin selection in subdivided populations: finite populations and localized dispersal. J. Evol. Biol. 13, 814-825. (doi:10.1046/j.1420-9101.2000.00219.x)
96. Rousset, F. & Gandon, S. 2002 Evolution of the distribution of dispersal distance under distance-dependent cost of dispersal. J. Evol. Biol. 15, 515-523. (doi:10.1046/j. 1420-9101.2002.00430.x)
97. Rousset, F. & Ronce, O. 2004 Inclusive fitness for traits affecting metapopulation demography. Theor. Popul. Biol. 65, 127-141. (doi:10.1016/j.tpb. 2003.09.003) (Pubitemid 38215111)
98. Rousset, F. & Roze, D. 2007 Constraints on the origin and maintenance of genetic kin recognition. Evolution 61, 2320-2330. (doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646. 2007.00191.x) (Pubitemid 47512222)
99. Roze, D. & Rousset, F. 2004 The robustness of Hamilton's rule with inbreeding and dominance: kin selection and fixation probabilities under partial sib mating. Am. Nat. 164, 214-231. (doi:10.1086/422202) (Pubitemid 39098924)
100. Roze, D. & Rousset, F. 2008 Multilocus models in the infinite island model of population structure. Theor. Popul. Biol. 73, 529-542. (doi:10.1016/j.tpb.2008.03.002)
101. Rubenstein, D. R. & Lovette, I. 2007 Temporal environmental variability drives the evolution of cooperative breeding in birds. Curr. Biol. 17, 1414-1419. (doi:10. 1016/j.cub.2007.07.032)
102. Sharp, S. P., Simeoni, M., Hatchwell, B. J. 2008 Dispersal of sibling coalitions promotes helping among immigrants in a cooperatively breeding bird. Proc. R. Soc. B 275, 2125-2130. (doi:10.1098/rspb.2008.0398)
103. Slatkin, W. D. 1977 Gene flow and genetic drift in a species subject to frequent local extinctions. Theor. Popul. Biol. 12, 253-262. (doi:10.1016/0040-5809(77)90045-4)
104. Sozou, P. D. 2009 Individual and social discounting in a viscous population. Proc. R. Soc. B 276, 2955-2962. (doi:10.1098/rspb.2009.0401)
105. Taylor, P. D. 1988 An inclusive fitness model for dispersal of offspring. J. Theor. Biol. 130, 363-378. (doi:10.1016/ S0022-5193(88)80035-3)
106. Taylor, P. D. 1992a Altruism in viscous populations-an inclusive fitness model. Evol. Ecol. 6, 352-356. (doi:10. 1007/BF02270971)
107. Taylor, P. D. 1992b Inclusive fitness in a homogeneous environment. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 240, 299-302. (doi:10.1098/rspb.1992.0118)
108. Taylor, P. D., Day, T. & Wild, G. 2007a Evolution of cooperation in a finite homogeneous graph. Nature 447, 469-472. (doi:10.1038/nature05784) (Pubitemid 46816736)
109. Taylor, P. D., Day, T. & Wild, G. 2007b From inclusive fitness to fixation probability in homogeneous structured populations. J. Theor. Biol. 249, 101-110. (doi:10.1016/ j.jtbi.2007.07.006)
110. Taylor, P. D. & Irwin, A. J. 2000 Overlapping generations can promote altruistic behavior. Evolution 54, 1135-1141. (doi:10.1111/j.0014-3820.2000. tb00549.x)
111. Traulsen, A. & Nowak, M. 2006 Evolution ofcooperation by multilevel selection. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 103, 10952-10955. (doi:10.1073/pnas. 0602530103) (Pubitemid 44148399)
112. Trivers, R. L. 1971 The evolution of reciprocal altruism. Q. Rev. Biol. 46, 35-57. (doi:10.1086/406755)
113. van Baalen, M. & Rand, A. 1998 The unit of selection in viscous populations and the evolution of altruism. J. Theor. Biol. 193, 631-648.
114. Vincent, T. L. & Brown, J. S. 2005 Evolutionary game theory, natural selection, and Darwinian dynamics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
115. Wade, M. J. 1985 Soft selection, hard selection, kin selection, and group selection. Am. Nat. 125, 61-73. (doi:10.1086/284328) (Pubitemid 16276189)
116. Wakano, J. Y. 2007 Evolution of cooperation in spatial public goods games with common resource dynamics. J. Theor. Biol. 247, 616-622. (doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2007. 4.008)
117. Weir, B. S. & Cockerham, C. C. 1984 Estimating F-statistics for the analysis of population structure. Evolution 38, 1358-1370. (doi:10.2307/2408641)
118. West, S. A. 2009 Sex allocation. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
119. West, S. A., Pen, I. & Griffin, A. S. 2002 Cooperation and competition between relatives. Science 296, 72-75. (doi:10.1126/science.1065507) (Pubitemid 34280062)
120. Wilson, E. O. 1975 Sociobiology: the new synthesis. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
121. Wright, S. 1931 Evolution in Mendelian populations. Genetics 16, 97-159.
122. Wright, S. 1951 The genetical structure ofpopulations. Ann. Eugen. 15, 323-354.