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Kin selection is a noun.
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WHAT DOES KIN SELECTION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Kin selection

Kin selection is the evolutionary strategy that favours the reproductive success of an organism's relatives, even at a cost to the organism's own survival and reproduction. Kin altruism is altruistic behaviour whose evolution is driven by kin selection. Kin selection is an instance of inclusive fitness, which combines the number of offspring produced with the number an individual can produce by supporting others, such as siblings. Charles Darwin discussed the concept of kin selection in his 1859 book, The Origin of Species, where he reflected on the puzzle of sterile social insects, such as honey bees, which leave reproduction to their sisters, arguing that a selection benefit to related organisms would allow the evolution of a trait that confers the benefit but destroys an individual at the same time. R.A. Fisher in 1930 and J.B.S. Haldane in 1932 set out the mathematics of kin selection, with Haldane famously joking that he would willingly die for two brothers or eight cousins. In 1964, W.D. Hamilton popularized the concept and the major advance in the mathematical treatment of the phenomenon by George R. Price which has become known as "Hamilton's rule".

Definition of kin selection in the English dictionary

The definition of kin selection in the dictionary is natural selection resulting from altruistic behaviour by animals towards members of the same species, esp their offspring or other relatives.

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Synonyms and antonyms of kin selection in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «kin selection» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF KIN SELECTION

Find out the translation of kin selection to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of kin selection from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «kin selection» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

亲属选择
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

la selección de parentesco
570 millions of speakers

English

kin selection
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

परिजनों चयन
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

اختيار ذوي القربى
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

родственного отбора
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

seleção de parentesco
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কান নির্বাচন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

la sélection de parentèle
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pemilihan kans
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

kin selection
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

血縁選択
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

친족 선택
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kin pilihan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

lựa chọn thân nhân
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உறவினர் தேர்வு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

नातेसंबंधांची निवड
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

akrabalık seçimi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

selezione di parentela
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wybór kin
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

спорідненого відбору
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

selecție kin
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

επιλογή συγγενών
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

naasbestaandes seleksie
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

kin urval
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kin utvalg
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of kin selection

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «KIN SELECTION»

The term «kin selection» is normally little used and occupies the 127.000 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about kin selection

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «KIN SELECTION»

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Evolution of social insect colonies: sex allocation and kin ...
This book is about the genetics and behaviour of individuals within colonies of social insects - bees, wasps, ants, and termites.
Rossiter Henry Crozier, Pekka Pamilo, 1996
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Cooperation in Primates and Humans: Mechanisms and Evolution
Joan B. Silk “ 'Kin selection' ...has become a bandwagon, and when bandwagons start to roll attitudes sometimes polarise. The rush to jump on provokes a healthy reaction. So it is today that the sensitive ethologist with his ear to the ground ...
Peter Kappeler, Carel P. van Schaik, 2006
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Sociobiology: The New Synthesis
It must be added, however, that even in such colonial species no evidence exists that interdemic selection prevails over kin selection or even counteracts it. It is even possible that minimum population sizes are decided indirectly by some as ...
Edward O. Wilson, 2000
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Social Evolution in Ants
Since reciprocal altruism may occur between relatives, this route to altruism and the kin selection one are not mutually exclusive (e.g. Nee 1989; Ligon 1991; Dugatkin et al. 1994). Over the time-scale of the individual's lifespan, delayed ...
Andrew F. G. Bourke, 1995
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Primate Paradigms: Sex Roles and Social Bonds
Another paradox that blurs some discussions of kin selection results from the difficulty described earlier of deciding the appropriate level of selection, since kin selection too can be interpreted as operating at different levels. For example, kin  ...
Linda Marie Fedigan, 1982
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The Nature of Selection: Evolutionary Theory in ...
What of kin selection? The basic idea behind this kind of selection process is that individuals interact differentially with kin and thereby differentially affect their fitness values.29 Kin selection would be impossible if individuals interacted with  ...
Elliott Sober, 1993
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Kinship and Behavior in Primates
In other words, our knowledge of the role of kin selection in the observed deployment of altruism in primate groups is approximate at best. Various factors converge to curtail the deployment of altruism well before the relatedness threshold for ...
Bernard Chapais, Carol M. Berman, 2004
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Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals
Increases in direct fitness include mechanisms such as direct benefits of group- living, direct and indirect reciprocity, and mutualism. Increases in indirect fitness are achieved via kin selection. It has been argued that when competition occurs at ...
William F. Perrin, Bernd Wursig, J. G.M. Thewissen, 2009
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Evolution of Communication Systems: A Comparative Approach
W. Tecumseh Fitch In a famous passage, J. B. S. Haldane (1955) conveyed the seed of the idea of kin selection when he acknowledged the selective advantage of saving, at risk to his own life, drowning brothers or cousins, but not more ...
D. Kimbrough Oller, Ulrike Griebel, 2004
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The Ants
KIN SELECTION To explain the more clear-cut cases of worker altruism, we must turn to kin selection, which can be defined as the alteration of the frequencies of genes shared by relatives through actions that favor or disfavor their relatives' ...
Bert Hölldobler, 1990

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «KIN SELECTION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term kin selection is used in the context of the following news items.
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Without God, is there a golden rule?
Selfless behavior is a product of “kin selection,” the article said—the idea that your genes are passed on not only to your own children but also ... «White Mountain Independent, Jul 15»
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Peter Saunders Sorts Out Confusion Over "Epigenetics"
Thus for example, I've often heard neo-Darwinists say how important Bill Hamilton was because of his theory of kin selection. Kin selection is ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
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Evolution of Kin Discrimination
“We often think of [organisms that show kin selection] as having a very similar strategy,” said Rafael Rosengarten, a postdoctoral researcher ... «The Scientist, Jul 15»
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No, Mr. President, you can not make us all own Dylann Roof
We all feel the nudge, to some degree, of countless generations of kin selection which is baked into the cake and won't be erased by a couple ... «Hot Air, Jun 15»
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Animals evolve. People evolve. Can groups evolve?
Last time, we left off with the raging debates between scientists who champion kin selection and those who swear by group selection. «Patheos, Jun 15»
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Is Inbreeding Always Bad?
These include far faster and more efficient reproduction, lower search costs, improves kin selection, undesired variability over generations, ... «Slate Magazine, Jun 15»
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Absurd Creature of the Week: The Spider Mother That Barfs Up Her …
It's known as kin selection: By helping guarantee their nieces and nephews survive, the sisters are indeed helping pass some of their genes ... «Wired, May 15»
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Bacteria Can Aid Aphids Against Predation and Parasitism
This cloning and clustering behavior allows for “kin selection” to occur. Kin selection is an evolutionary strategy in which an individual increases ... «Entomology Today, Apr 15»
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The Man Who Couldn't Stop Giving
In the mid-20th century, biologists began explaining acts of altruism with something called kin selection. The theory holds that animals, including humans, are far ... «The Atlantic, Apr 15»
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Do parents favor their biological children over their adopted ones?
To see how this so-called kin selection theory might apply to ... kin selection behaviors that might otherwise lead parents to invest more time ... «Science /AAAS, Apr 15»

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