Biology 1001A Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Eusociality, Reciprocal Altruism, Haplodiploidy

• School: Western University
• Department: Biology
• Course: Biology 1001A
• Professor: Tom Haffie

Document Summary

Lecture 18 co-operation and conflict is outcomes: identify the meanings of kin selection, altruism, reciprocal altruism, eusocial, kin selection. : individuals should be more likely to help close relatives because increasing a close relative"s fitness means that the individual is helping to propagate some of its own alleles: altruism individual. : involves doing something that enhances the situation of another: kin selection theory shows that helping raise siblings = genetically. : individuals will help nonrelatives if they are likely to: calculate degree of relatedness between two individuals, given the type of selfish not altruistic, reciprocal altruism return the favour in the future, each member can potentially benefit, eusocial.