Topic: William Hughes
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KIN selection - the idea that individuals get their genes passed along by assisting close relatives to reproduce - helped solve one of evolution's trickiest puzzles: altruism. Yet this bedrock of theory was recently shaken when Harvard University evolutionary biologist Edward O. Wilson ...
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Yet those on the other side-most notably, renowned biologist Edward O. Wilson of Harvard University-contend that eusocial insects work together in colonies because it is to their individual advantage; their cooperative spirit is simply a consequence. Researchers led by William Hughes of ...
KIN selection - the idea that individuals get their genes passed along by assisting close relatives to reproduce - helped solve one of evolution's trickiest puzzles: altruism. Yet this bedrock of theory was recently shaken when Harvard University evolutionary biologist Edward O. Wilson ...
KIN selection - the idea that individuals get their genes passed along by assisting close relatives to reproduce - helped solve one of evolution's trickiest puzzles: altruism. Yet this bedrock of theory was recently shaken when Harvard University evolutionary biologist Edward O. Wilson ...
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It's a problem that has been debated ever since Darwin: Recently, the orthodox explanation - that they favour their own genes indirectly by helping their kin - has been fiercely challenged by Edward O Wilson, one of the most prominent evolutionary biologists of ...
In the 1970s, Harvard University sociobiologist E. O. Wilson proposed that eusocial communities evolved because they were one big, happy family: The concept "shook the bedrock" of the sociobiology field, says William Hughes, a biologist at the University of Leeds in the ...
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