There is nothing wrong with inclusive fitness
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1 Center for Systems Biology, Harvard University, Bauer Laboratory, 7 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA 2 Zoological Institute, University of Leuven, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium 3 Laboratory of Apiculture and Social Insects, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK, S10 2TN 4 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Rice University, MS 170, 6100 Main, Houston, TX 77005, USA
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