Ever since Darwin published On The Origin of Species in 1859, the evolution of altruism has been a perennial paradox for evolutionary biologists. In this review, I will discuss three evolutionary paths to altruism - genetic relatedness, reciprocity, and group selection - and examine very recent work that uses social network modeling to help us better understand the evolution of altruism.
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Dugatkin, L. A. (2017). The evolution of altruism. Vavilovskii Zhurnal Genetiki i Selektsii. Institute of Cytology and Genetics of Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.18699/VJ17.267
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