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Evolution of Helping and Harming in Viscous Populations When Group Size Varies

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2013
Author
Rodrigues, Antonio M. M.
Gardner, Andy
Keywords
Class structure
Conditional behavior
Inclusive fitness
Kin selection
Phenotypic plasticity
Reproductive value
Promote altruistic behavior
Overlapping generations
Genetical evolution
Cooperation
Dispersal
Competition
Demography
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QH301 Biology
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Abstract
Recent years have seen huge interest in understanding how demographic factors mediate the evolution of social behavior in viscous populations. Here we study the impact of variation in group size on the evolution of helping and harming behavior. Although variation in group size influences the degree of relatedness and the degree of competition between groupmates, we find that these effects often exactly cancel, so as to give no net impact of variation in group size on the evolution of helping and harming. Specifically, (1) obligate helping and harming are never mediated by variation in group size, (2) facultative helping and harming are not mediated by variation in group size when this variation is spatial only, (3) facultative helping and harming are mediated by variation in group size only when this variation is temporal or both spatial and temporal, and (4) when there is an effect of variation in group size, facultative helping is favored in big groups and facultative harming is favored in little groups. Moreover, we find that spatial and temporal heterogeneity in individual fecundity may interact with patch-size heterogeneity to change these predictions, promoting the evolution of harming in big patches and of helping in little patches.
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Rodrigues , A M M & Gardner , A 2013 , ' Evolution of Helping and Harming in Viscous Populations When Group Size Varies ' , American Naturalist , vol. 181 , no. 5 , pp. 609-622 . https://doi.org/10.1086/670031
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American Naturalist
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1086/670031
ISSN
0003-0147
Type
Journal article
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© 2013 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.
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Funding: Balliol College and the Royal Society.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/5081

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