BIOL 3040 Study Guide - Begging, Group Selection, Eusociality
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Free rider cost. individuals benefit from altruistic acts of others but are not paying a: list the three paths to cooperative behavior (cid:224)kinship (cid:224)reciprocity (cid:224)group selection. Free riders or those who do not cooperate are always favored by within group selection because they receive benefits but pay no cost: within and between group selection in ants, in messor pergandei, cofounding queens cooperate during worker production, once workers are produced, non cooperative behaviors escalate, faster workers are produced, the less of a chance of a raid on the colony by other workers or potential invaders, prior to worker explosion, or the production of a large number of workers, there is a high amount of cooperation among cofounding queens giving a low death rate(cid:224) group selection and cooperation, in another case using ants, foraging is dangerous and done by one of the queens, but all food is shared equally.
