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Inclusive fitness in humans is the application of inclusive fitness theory to human social behaviour, relationships and cooperation.

Inclusive fitness theory (and the related kin selection theory) are general theories in evolutionary biology that propose a method to understand the evolution of social behaviours in organisms. While various ideas related to these theories have been influential in the study of the social behaviour of non-human organisms, their application to human behaviour has been debated.

Inclusive fitness theory is broadly understood to describe a statistical criterion by which social traits can evolve to become widespread in a population of organisms. However, beyond this some scientists have interpreted the theory to make predictions about how the expression of social behavior is mediated in both humans and other animals – typically that genetic relatedness determines the expression of social behaviour. Other biologists and anthropologists maintain that beyond its statistical evolutionary relevance the theory does not necessarily imply that genetic relatedness per se determines the expression of social behavior in organisms. Instead, the expression of social behavior may be mediated by correlated conditions, such as shared location, shared rearing environment, familiarity or other contextual cues which correlate with shared genetic relatedness, thus meeting the statistical evolutionary criteria without being deterministic. While the former position still attracts controversy, the latter position has a better empirical fit with anthropological data about human kinship practices, and is accepted by cultural anthropologists.

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Inclusive fitness in humans

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Inclusive fitness in humans is the application of inclusive fitness theory to human social behaviour, relationships and cooperation. Inclusive fitness...

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Inclusive fitness

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In evolutionary biology, inclusive fitness is one of two metrics of evolutionary success as defined by W. D. Hamilton in 1964: Personal fitness is the...

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redirect targets Godparent – Person who sponsors a child's baptism Inclusive fitness in humans Rada (fiqh) Wet nurse – Woman who breastfeeds and cares for another's...

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Tribalism

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the collective. Some scholars argue that inclusive fitness in humans involves kin selection and kin altruism, in which groups of an extended family with...

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Group selection

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a mechanism for favoring genetic selection. Inclusive fitness theory, first proposed by W. D. Hamilton in the early 1960s, gives a selection criterion...

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Kin selection

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can lead to the evolution of altruistic behaviour. It is related to inclusive fitness, which combines the number of offspring produced with the number an...

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Human behavioral ecology

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optimize humans' inclusive fitness in their given ecological context. Human behavioral ecologists assume that what might be the most adaptive strategy in one...

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Inclusive design

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Inclusive design is a design process in which a product, service, or environment is designed to be usable for as many people as possible, particularly...

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Cooperative breeding

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and an inclusive fitness. Inclusive fitness is the sum of all direct and indirect fitness, where direct fitness is defined as the amount of fitness gained...

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Darwinian anthropology

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expressed in the human species, and its reliance on interpreting inclusive fitness theory to simply imply that humans have evolved to be inclusive fitness maximizers...

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Nurture kinship

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support the nurture perspective than the blood perspective (see Human inclusive fitness). Both Schneider and Holland argue that the earlier blood theory...

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Theoretical foundations of evolutionary psychology

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reproduce. General evolutionary theory, in its modern form, is essentially inclusive fitness theory. Inclusive fitness theory resolved the issue of how "altruism"...

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Eusociality

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(2015-03-22). "Inclusive fitness and differential productivity across the life course determine intergenerational transfers in a small-scale human society"...

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Evolutionary psychology

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of human nature. Anchor Books: New York. Daly, Matin, and Margo I. Wilson. (1999) Daly & Wilson 1998 "Evolutionary Psychology – Inclusive Fitness". Retrieved...

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Kinesiology

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principle of kinesiology that relates to improved fitness in athletes as well as health and wellness in clinical populations. Exercise is a simple and established...

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Kin recognition

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their role in the wider debates about how to interpret inclusive fitness theory, including its compatibility with ethnographic data on human kinship, see...

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Cooperation

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related inclusive fitness theory is defined as a reproductive strategy that favors the success of an organism's relatives, even when it is not in an organism's...

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The Selfish Gene

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with each other. A lineage is expected to evolve to maximise its inclusive fitness—the number of copies of its genes passed on globally (rather than...

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Social Bonding and Nurture Kinship

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social bonding in humans." Holland's position is based on demonstrating that the dominant biological theory of social behavior (inclusive fitness theory) is...

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Fitness culture

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Fitness culture is a sociocultural phenomenon surrounding exercise and physical fitness. It is usually associated with gym culture, as doing physical...

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Disassortative mating

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cooperation and increases inclusive fitness. With disassortative mating, heterotypic preference (bias towards different types) in many cases has been shown...

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Evolutionary psychology of parenting

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Such parental influences lead to the theories of inclusive fitness as well as parental investment in illustrating the roots of parenting styles relayed...

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Evolutionary game theory

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extended form of fitnessinclusive fitness, which includes an individual's offspring as well as any offspring equivalents found in kin. Hamilton went...

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Kinship

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approach human kinship with the assumption that inclusive fitness theory predicts that kinship relations in humans are indeed expected to depend on genetic relatedness...

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Human variability

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because they may help the fitness of their siblings and siblings' children, thus increasing their own fitness through inclusive fitness and maintaining evolution...

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Reciprocal altruism in humans

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nature. In 1964, William Hamilton developed mathematical model and put forward to his theory – ″Kin selection″ theory or ″inclusive fitness″ theory reveals...

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Siblicide

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it survives along with its siblings. In the context of Hamilton's inclusive fitness theory, the marginal chick increases the total number of offspring...

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Index of evolutionary biology articles

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gene transfer – human evolution – human evolutionary genetics – human vestigiality – Julian Huxley – Thomas Henry Huxley inclusive fitness – insect evolution...

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