English Explanatory Dictionary

kin selection

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An evolutionary strategy that favors an individual organism's close kin over itself.

Word forms

kin selection

Etymology

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

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