kin selection en · NOUN
Etymology
Coined by John Maynard Smith in 1964 in a Nature paper titled "Group Selection and Kin Selection".
Meanings
- (uncountable) An evolutionary strategy that favors an individual organism's close kin over itself.
Translations (3)
fr sélection de parentèle (Translations) · fi sukulaisvalinta (Translations) · pl dobór krewniaczy (Translations)