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The 28 pages that link to Kin selection, each with the reason it gives.

• Animal communicationRelated: Alarm calls and other costly signals can benefit relatives who share the caller’s genes.

• EusocialityRelated: Helping relatives reproduce can spread genes even when helpers leave no offspring.

• Cooperative breedingRelated: Relatedness can make costly help to another pair's young advantageous.

• AltruismRelated: Helping relatives can increase the survival of shared genes, even when helpers pay a cost.

• Inclusive fitnessNarrower topic: Inclusive fitness offers an accounting framework for kin selection.

• Reciprocal altruismCompared with: It explains costly helping through shared genes, unlike reciprocity's expectation of later return.

• Ant colonyRelated: Relatedness helps explain why workers may sacrifice personal reproduction for colony relatives.

• Alarm callRelated: Warding off danger to relatives can help explain costly warning behavior.

• Evolutionary game theoryRelated: Relatedness changes the effective payoffs of helping and competition.

• Prairie dogRelated: Close social ties can make cooperative warning behavior advantageous.

• Group selectionCompared with: It explains cooperation through shared genes rather than requiring selection among groups.

• SociobiologyRelated: It accounts for apparently self-sacrificing behavior toward relatives.

• SocialityRelated: Helping relatives can make group cooperation advantageous even when it carries costs to the helper.

• Social behaviorRelated: Shared genes can make costly helping behavior advantageous.

• HaplodiploidyRelated: Haplodiploid inheritance became central to proposed explanations of helping behavior among relatives.

• NepotismNarrower topic: It offers an evolutionary framework for studying behavior that benefits kin, not a justification for workplace favoritism.

• The Selfish GeneRelated: It supplies a mechanism for apparently self-sacrificing behavior discussed in the book.

• Brood careRelated: Care can benefit shared genes even when helpers are not the parents.

• MulticellularityRelated: Related cells can share interests, helping explain cooperation within organisms.

• Primate socialityNarrower topic: Relatedness helps explain cooperation and tolerance among relatives in primate groups.

• Dictyostelium discoideumRelated: Relatedness among aggregating cells can make stalk-cell sacrifice evolutionarily advantageous.

• E. O. WilsonRelated: It offered Wilson a framework for explaining cooperation among related social insects.

• W. D. HamiltonRelated: Hamilton used this process to explain how altruism can evolve among relatives.

• Vampire batRelated: Relatedness can help explain some food-sharing patterns among vampire bats.

• Cinderella effectNarrower topic: The evolutionary account places caregiving within selection for effects on relatives’ reproductive success.

• Evolution of moralityRelated: Explains why helping relatives can evolve even when help carries a personal cost.

• Evolutionary origin of religionCompared with: It offers an alternative evolutionary scale for explaining costly cooperation within religious communities.

• Society (animal behavior)Related: Helping relatives can favor cooperation even when it carries costs to the helper.