KINSHIP AND COOPERATION


The prisoner's dilemma revisited

Considerable theoretical and empirical work has attempted to determine whether reciprocal altruism exists in nature.

Cooperation among non-kin

  • vigilance and alarm calls
  • herding and schooling
  • cooperative foraging

Dominance hierarchies in social groups

Dominance hierarchies

Cooperation among kin, kin selection and kin recognition

W. D. Hamilton

eusocial animals

Kin Recognition

Extreme cooperation: eusocial animals

examples of eusocial animals.

 

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