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    For altruism to evolve, recipients of altruistic actions ... — Carmelics
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    For altruism to evolve, recipients of altruistic actions must have a greater than average probability of being altruists themselves.

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    • 1.Altruism evolving requires that altruists and recipients both carry copies of the altruistic gene.
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    • 2.A greater than average probability of recipients being altruists ensures the shared-gene condition is met.
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    • 1.Kin selection (Hamilton 1964) shows altruism can evolve when recipients share genes by common descent, not by behavioral correlation among non-kin.
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    • 2.The claim conflates population-level statistical frequency with the distinct genetic relatedness coefficient (r) that actually drives inclusive fitness calculations.
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    • 1.Multilevel selection theory (Sober & Wilson 1998) demonstrates that altruism can evolve when altruist-dense groups outcompete defector-dense groups, regardless of within-group recipient identity.
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    • 2.If between-group selection pressure is sufficiently strong, altruistic traits spread even when individual recipients are no more likely than average to be altruists themselves.
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    The importance of kinship for the evolution of altruism is very widely accepted today, on both theoretical and empirical grounds. However, kinship is really only a way of ensuring that altruists and recipients both carry copies of the altruistic gene, which is the fundamental requirement. If altruism is to evolve, it must be the case that the recipients of altruistic actions have a greater than average probability of being altruists themselves. Kin-directed altruism is the most obvious way of s
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