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The evolution of eusociality Speaker: Corina Tarnita , Harvard University Relevant URL: Eusociality, in which some individuals reduce their lifetime reproductive potential to raise the offspring of others, underlies the most advanced forms of social organization and the ecologically dominant role of social insects. For the past four decades, kin selection theory, based on the concept of inclusive fitness, has been the major theoretical attempt to explain the evolution of eusociality. In this talk I propose that standard natural selection theory in the context of precise models of population structure represents a simpler and superior approach, allows the evaluation of multiple competing hypotheses, and provides an exact framework for interpreting empirical observations. See other events that are part of Bioinformatics Seminar Series 2010/2011 |
