Eusocial insects and the challenge to the idea of natural selection
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1984-5154.v3p6-8Keywords:
Natural Selection, Kin selection, HamiltonAbstract
This article is about the classic debate about the difficulty that the theory of natural selection has in explaining the emergence of non-fertile individuals. Therefore, it is presented the concept of eusociality, the ideas of kin selection, altruism, enforced altruism and group selection.
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