kin selection
nounEtymology
Coined by John Maynard Smith in 1964 in a Nature paper titled "Group Selection and Kin Selection".
Definitions
An evolutionary strategy that favors an individual organism's close kin over itself.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for kin selection. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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