Microscale kin discrimination in a famous soil bacterium
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Microscale kin discrimination in a famous soil bacterium.
Hamilton (1) argued that prior to his theory of inclusive fitness, nobody had sought evidence for kin discrimination in animals because nepotism was an embarrassment to human society. Why did it take so long after Hamilton’s theory was proposed, however, to search for kin discrimination in simpler organisms, like bacteria? Perhaps we were prideful that we, as animals, have the unique ability to...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1519070112