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Levels of selection debate

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Refers to a debate concerning which level of biological organization, natural selection is best seen as acting at

e.g.: genes, individuals, populations

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Wynne Edwards explanation for reproductive restraint in birds

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According to him, birds hatch less eggs during a scarce period so that the whole population will survive

–> altruism has to be able to outcompete selfishness, for the theory to work

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Why is Wynne-Edwards explanation wrong ?

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Altruism will not outcompete selfishness as it will eventually go extinct

–> as altruists only lay one egg as opposed to selfish ones, they will be disadvantaged relative to their competitors within the group

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Evolutionary stable strategy (ESS)

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Refers to a behavioral policy that, once common in a population, cannot be outcompeted by any alternative behavioral policy

ex.: selfishness

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Why are altruistic alleles disadvantaged as opposed to selfish alleles ? Why do they go extinct ?

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Because the average fitness of the selfish allele is higher than that of the altruistic allele

–> this means it will eventually go into fixation

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Kin selection (Hamilton)

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Refers to natural selection in which an apparently disadvantageous characteristic increases in the population due to increased survival of individuals genetically related to those possessing the characteristic

–> central component is the coefficient of relatedness

ex.: altruistic traits

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Hamiltons rule

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States that kin selection causes specific genes to increase in frequency when the genetic relatedness of a recipient to an actor multiplied by the benefit to the recipient is greater than the reproductive cost to the actor

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Formula for Hamiltons rule

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C < 1/2 x b

c= reduction in the actors reproductive success/cost

b= increase in the recipients reproductive success/benefit

r=1/2 –> coefficient of relatedness

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Inclusive fitness

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Refers to an individual’s direct fitness + any other additional fitness of its relatives resulting from helping him, adjusted by the coefficient of relatedness

–> sum of direct + indirect fitness

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Alloparenting

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Investing in or providing parental care to any non-direct offspring

–> kin selection plays a strong role

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What are the constraints on hamilton’s rule ?

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  1. A behavior will not evolve, if C is too large in absolute terms
  2. R is not sufficient to predict which behaviors will evolve

–> b + c are variable depending on the future prospects of the recipient + actor

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Why can behaviors that benefit relatives at the expense of the actor evolve according to Hamilton ?

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Because of allelic relatedness between kin

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True altruism

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Develops if a cooperation behavior, negatively affects the actors lifetime reproductive success

–> evolves + is maintained through kin selection

ex.: parental care

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Mutual-benefit behaviors

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Develops if a cooperation behavior, positively affects the lifetime reproductive success of both the recipient + actor

–> can only be maintained if cheating strategies can be prevented from prospering

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Cheating

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Taking the benefits of joint ventures without paying the cost

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By-product benefit

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Occurs when the benefits to others arise simply as a side effect of the benefit to the actor

–> no cooperation, therefore no cheating

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Direct reciprocity

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Refers to the idea that we help individuals who have helped us in the past

–> possible mechanism for the evolution of mutual-benefit behavior

ex.: Prisoners dilemma

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Indirect reciprocity

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Refers to the idea that it might be advantageous to help individuals who we have seen helping others in the past, even if that help wasn’t specifically directed to us

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Punishment

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Providing punishment is a form of cooperation

–> can make cooperation stable even in the absence of direct reciprocity

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Humans are notable for the extent of their cooperation. Why is that ?

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  1. They have direct reciprocal one-on-one relationships
    ex. : friendships, marriages
  2. Collective actions/Contribution to joint ventures

–> the costs are potentially very large, but are sustained by a combination of danger of ostracism or punishment

ex.: going to war

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Ultimate explanations

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Are concerned with why a behavior exists

–> respectively the fitness consequences of a trait or behavior and whether it is (or is not) selected

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Proximate explanations

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Are concerned with how a certain behavior works

–> respectively the mechanisms that underpin the trait or behavior

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Tit for tat

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Cooperate in the first round, and then do what the other just did to you

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Grudgers

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Is a strategy where one first always co-operates unless the other defects – then he only defects

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Stay-loose shift

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Keeping the strategy if you win, but changing it when you loose

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Joss

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Strategy that is basically tit for that, but sometimes tries defecting

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Tester

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Is a strategy which starts of cooperating and then defects to see what the opponent does and to find out their strategy

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Indirect fitness

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Refer to the genes that contribute to the next generation by an individual indirectly via helping relatives

–> offsprings produced by relatives

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Direct fitness

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Refer to the genes that contribute to the next generation by an individual directly via reproduction

–> direct offsprings

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Parochial altruism

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Altruism within a group has co-evolved with hostile behaviour towards the other group, factors combined result in fitness benefit

–> reduces fitness

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Eusociality

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Highest level of organization of animal sociality, is defined by

  1. cooperative brood care

–> individuals older than parents assist in raising the offspring

  1. overlapping generations within a colony of adults
  2. division of labour into reproductive and non-reproductive groups/ reproductive altruism
  3. philopatry

–> individuals remain living in their birthplace

ex.: bees

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Reproductive altruism

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Behaviour that increases other organisms’ fitness and permanently decreases the actor’s own fitness

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Network reciprocity Formula ?

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Social networks imply that some individuals interact more often than others

FORMULA: b/c>k

–> The benefit-to-cost ratio must exceed the average number of neighbours (k) per individual

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Reproductive restraint

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Refers to adaptation that has evolved because it increases the likelihood of the population surviving through bad years

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What are the benefits of tit for tat ?

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It is

a) Nice
* never cheats first
b) Retaliatory
* sees cheating and cheats too
c) Forgiving
* forgives earlier cheating

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Hamiltons explanation on how Eusociality arose in social Hymenoptera

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According to him, it arose by kin selection because of their interesting genetic sex determination trait of haplodiploidy

–> males are produced by parthenogenesis, females are produced from fertilized eggs

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What is a cooperator ?/ Cooperation ?

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Someone who pays a cost (c), for another individual to receive a benefit (b)

–> best for in-group

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What is a defector ?/ Defection ?

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Someone who has no cost and does not deal out benefits

–> have a higher overall fitness than cooperators

–> selection increases the relative abundance of defectors

–> best for the individual + population

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Formula for direct reciprocity

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w>c/b

–> the probability (w) of another encounter between the same two individuals has to exceed the cost-to-benefit ratio of the altruistic act

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Formula for indirect reciprocity

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q>c/b

–> the probability (q) of knowing someone’s reputation has to exceed the cost-to-benefit ratio of the altruistic act

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Fitness

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Refers to the ability of an individual to survive and reproduce in an environment, compared to other individuals in the population

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Green beard effect

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Refers to a situation where one favors the carriers of a certain gene that can be seen by phenotypic effects

ex.: Green beard people help each other, but not others

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Group selection

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In a group, selfish individuals will beat altruistic individuals but between them, groups of altruistic individuals beat groups of selfish individuals

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Multi level selection

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Selection acts on individual organisms but also on groups

  1. The population is divided in groups, which grow due to offspring
  2. Once a group has a certain size, it splits in 2
  3. Now there is selection at 2 levels

–> within group that favors defectors and between group that favors cooperators

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