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kin selection en · NOUN

Etymology

Coined by John Maynard Smith in 1964 in a Nature paper titled "Group Selection and Kin Selection".

Meanings

  1. (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)

wikipedia: Nature (journal)