Inclusive Fitness and Human Family Structure
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Inclusive fitness in human relationships
For Homo sapiens, inclusive fitness theory goes well beyond ‘kin’. As William Hamilton hypothesized, genes can increase the probability of their own survival by bringing about the reproduction of not only family members with whom they share copies, but also of any individuals with whom they share copies. Research with Hamilton’s theory on people is less well known and remains controversial. Thi...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: American Anthropologist
سال: 1977
ISSN: 0002-7294,1548-1433
DOI: 10.1525/aa.1977.79.4.02a00030