BIO220H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Eusociality, Inclusive Fitness, Cooperative Breeding
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For something to be eusociality, there needs to be overlapping generations, cooperative breeding, and the division of labour. Darwin saw cooperation and thought it was a really big problem because why would oen organism help another, this was against the theory of natural selection. The doves can either split the resources or one time one takes it all, the other time the other one takes it all. Hawk vs dove is 6, hawk vs hawk is 1. Thus its always best to play as a hawk. If against a dove you should be a hawk, if opponent is a hawk then you should be a dove. If hey ha(cid:448)e a defe(cid:272)tor, they don"t get (cid:272)lose to the predator. Crows make alarm calls and these calls attract predators to them but it protects the group. Groups composed of all callers have a higher advantage than the other groups.
