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. 2011 Mar 24;471(7339):E1-4; author reply E9-10.
doi: 10.1038/nature09831.

Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality

Patrick Abbot, Jun Abe, John Alcock, Samuel Alizon, Joao A C Alpedrinha, Malte Andersson, Jean-Baptiste Andre, Minus van Baalen, Francois Balloux, Sigal Balshine, Nick Barton, Leo W Beukeboom, Jay M Biernaskie, Trine Bilde, Gerald Borgia, Michael Breed, Sam Brown, Redouan Bshary, Angus Buckling, Nancy T Burley, Max N Burton-Chellew, Michael A Cant, Michel Chapuisat, Eric L Charnov, Tim Clutton-Brock, Andrew Cockburn, Blaine J Cole, Nick Colegrave, Leda Cosmides, Iain D Couzin, Jerry A Coyne, Scott Creel, Bernard Crespi, Robert L Curry, Sasha R X Dall, Troy Day, Janis L Dickinson, Lee Alan Dugatkin, Claire El Mouden, Stephen T Emlen, Jay Evans, Regis Ferriere, Jeremy Field, Susanne Foitzik, Kevin Foster, William A Foster, Charles W Fox, Juergen Gadau, Sylvain Gandon, Andy Gardner, Michael G Gardner, Thomas Getty, Michael A D Goodisman, Alan Grafen, Rick Grosberg, Christina M Grozinger, Pierre-Henri Gouyon, Darryl Gwynne, Paul H Harvey, Ben J Hatchwell, Jürgen Heinze, Heikki Helantera, Ken R Helms, Kim Hill, Natalie Jiricny, Rufus A Johnstone, Alex Kacelnik, E Toby Kiers, Hanna Kokko, Jan Komdeur, Judith Korb, Daniel Kronauer, Rolf Kümmerli, Laurent Lehmann, Timothy A Linksvayer, Sébastien Lion, Bruce Lyon, James A R Marshall, Richard McElreath, Yannis Michalakis, Richard E Michod, Douglas Mock, Thibaud Monnin, Robert Montgomerie, Allen J Moore, Ulrich G Mueller, Ronald Noë, Samir Okasha, Pekka Pamilo, Geoff A Parker, Jes S Pedersen, Ido Pen, David Pfennig, David C Queller, Daniel J Rankin, Sarah E Reece, Hudson K Reeve, Max Reuter, Gilbert Roberts, Simon K A Robson, Denis Roze, Francois Rousset, Olav Rueppell, Joel L Sachs, Lorenzo Santorelli, Paul Schmid-Hempel, Michael P Schwarz, Tom Scott-Phillips, Janet Shellmann-Sherman, Paul W Sherman, David M Shuker, Jeff Smith, Joseph C Spagna, Beverly Strassmann, Andrew V Suarez, Liselotte Sundström, Michael Taborsky, Peter Taylor, Graham Thompson, John Tooby, Neil D Tsutsui, Kazuki Tsuji, Stefano Turillazzi, Francisco Ubeda, Edward L Vargo, Bernard Voelkl, Tom Wenseleers, Stuart A West, Mary Jane West-Eberhard, David F Westneat, Diane C Wiernasz, Geoff Wild, Richard Wrangham, Andrew J Young, David W Zeh, Jeanne A Zeh, Andrew Zink
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Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality

Patrick Abbot et al. Nature. .

Abstract

Arising from M. A. Nowak, C. E. Tarnita & E. O. Wilson 466, 1057-1062 (2010); Nowak et al. reply. Nowak et al. argue that inclusive fitness theory has been of little value in explaining the natural world, and that it has led to negligible progress in explaining the evolution of eusociality. However, we believe that their arguments are based upon a misunderstanding of evolutionary theory and a misrepresentation of the empirical literature. We will focus our comments on three general issues.

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  • The evolution of eusociality.
    Nowak MA, Tarnita CE, Wilson EO. Nowak MA, et al. Nature. 2010 Aug 26;466(7310):1057-62. doi: 10.1038/nature09205. Nature. 2010. PMID: 20740005 Free PMC article.

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