A quantitative test of Hamilton's rule for the evolution of altruism

PLoS Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Waibel, Markus ^a   Floreano, Dario ^a   Keller, Laurent ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALTRUISM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EVOLUTION; FORAGING; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HAMILTON RULE; KIN SELECTION; PLEIOTROPY; POPULATION GENETICS; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; ROBOTICS; SIMULATION; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; MUTATION;

ALTRUISM; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); ROBOTICS; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 79958022404     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000615     Document Type: Article

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