Group selection and inclusive fitness are not equivalent; the Price equation vs. models and statistics

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 299, Issue , 2012, Pages 64-80

  van Veelen, Matthijs ^a   García, Julián ^b   Sabelis, Maurice W ^c   Egas, Martijn ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dynamical (in)sufficiency; Group selection; Inclusive fitness; Price's theorem; The Price equation

Indexed keywords

EQUATION; GROUP SELECTION; INCLUSIVE FITNESS; KIN SELECTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRICE DYNAMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; DECOMPOSITION; GAME; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC SELECTION; GENOTYPE; GROUP SELECTION; KIN SELECTION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRICE EQUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MODEL; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; STATISTICS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; GAME THEORY; GENOTYPE; GROUP PROCESSES; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84857921725     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2011.07.025     Document Type: Article

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