There is no fitness but fitness, and the lineage is its bearer

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作者
Akcay, Erol [1 ]
Van Cleve, Jeremy [2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Penn, Dept Biol, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
[2] Univ Kentucky, Dept Biol, Lexington, KY 40506 USA
关键词
inclusive fitness; lineage; Hamilton's rule; invasion fitness; class structure; non-additive interactions; KIN SELECTION; INCLUSIVE FITNESS; COOPERATIVE COURTSHIP; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENCE; TRIBONYX-MORTIERII; HAMILTONS RULE; LIFE-HISTORY; EVOLUTION; BEHAVIOR; ADAPTATION;
D O I
10.1098/rstb.2015.0085
中图分类号
Q [生物科学];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
Inclusive fitness has been the cornerstone of social evolution theory for more than a half-century and has matured as a mathematical theory in the past 20 years. Yet surprisingly for a theory so central to an entire field, some of its connections to evolutionary theory more broadly remain contentious or underappreciated. In this paper, we aim to emphasize the connection between inclusive fitness and modern evolutionary theory through the following fact: inclusive fitness is simply classical Darwinian fitness, averaged over social, environmental and demographic states that members of a gene lineage experience. Therefore, inclusive fitness is neither a generalization of classical fitness, nor does it belong exclusively to the individual. Rather, the lineage perspective emphasizes that evolutionary success is determined by the effect of selection on all biological and environmental contexts that a lineage may experience. We argue that this understanding of inclusive fitness based on gene lineages provides the most illuminating and accurate picture and avoids pitfalls in interpretation and empirical applications of inclusive fitness theory.
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