kin selection

English

Etymology

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

Noun

kin selection (uncountable)

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

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