Cooperation and Competition Between Relatives

By Stuart A. West, I. Pen, A. Griffin. Science, 2002

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Genetics, Sociology and Political Science

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Kin recognition: an overview of conceptual issues, mechanisms and evolutionary theory (2010, background): “In addition to helping kin, some species avoid competition with kin (West et al. 2002), or show conditional aggression toward non-kin (cannibalism and infanticide) (Pfennig et al. 1993, Manica 2002).”
Models of cooperation based on the Prisoner's Dilemma and the Snowdrift game (2005, background): “In fact, Wilson et al. (1992) and Taylor (1992), and more recently West et al. (2002) , have pointed out that population viscosity not only increases relatedness among cooperatively interacting individuals, but also increases competition for resources among relatives.”
Large group size yields group stability in the cooperatively breeding cichlid Neolamprologus pulcher (2005, background): “the group size where (inclusive) fitness of individual group members is maximised, depending on the ratio of within-group (‘local density’) and between-group density-dependent effects (‘global density’) on their fitness, modified by local and global patterns of genetic relatedness (see also West et”
Family insurance: kin selection and cooperative breeding in a solitary primate (Microcebus murinus) (2006, methodology): “To determine the exact costs and benefits of cooperative breeding, data on lifetime reproductive success, combined with long-term behavioral data need to be analyzed using Hamilton’s rule (Hamilton 1964; Heinsohn and Legge 1999; West et al. 2002).”
Message ‘scent’: lemurs detect the genetic relatedness and quality of conspecifics via olfactory cues (2010, result): “Likewise, the intrasexual response of male lemurs during the breeding season is also consistent with prior suggestions, for other species, that males discriminate relatedness among their potential male competitors tominimize the costs of competing with relatives (Trivers 1985; West et al. 2002).”
Sociality of the dispersing sex: The nature of social bonds in West African female chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes (2009, neutral): “Previous studies have shown that the competitive regime can interact with kin selection (reviewed in West et al. 2002) and, depending on the nature of the competitive regime, selection for cooperation between relatives and nonrelatives can be affected (e.g. West et al. 2001, 2006).”
Kin Selection and the Evolutionary Theory of Aging (2007, background): “However, altruism reemerges if density dependence is delayed (West et al. 2002) because the severity of density dependence becomes less correlated with population composition (Kelly 1992).”
Fission–fusion dynamics in wild giraffes may be driven by kinship, spatial overlap and individual social preferences (2013, background): “breeding success and the altruistic benefits of associating with relatives (Clutton-Brock et al. 1982; West et al. 2002).”
Cooperation and competition in pathogenic bacteria (2004, background): “Second, there was a significant interaction between relatedness and the scale of competition, with relatedness having a relatively weaker effect when the scale of competition was more local (F (1,12) 1⁄4 7.”
Malthusian Reinforcement Learning (2018, neutral): “occurs locally within each island [14, 39, 40].”
The Social Lives of Microbes (2007, background): “A novel feature of selection on persistence is that this last prediction and pattern are in a direction opposite to the usual prediction, that more local competition selects against cooperation (West et al. 2002).”
LIFE HISTORY AND THE EVOLUTION OF PARENTAL CARE (2010, neutral): “…likely to be favored in populations that are ‘viscous’ (i.e., have low dispersal; Hamilton 1964; van Baalen and Jansen 2006; West et al. 2007) if the benefits of care are not outweighed by costs associated with increased competition among closely related individuals (Kelly 1992; West et al. 2002).”
Theoretical foundations of parental care (2012, background): “have low dispersal; Hamilton 1964; Lion and van Baalen 2007) if the benefits of care are not outweighed by costs associated with increased competition among closely related individuals (West et al. 2002).”
Runaway Social Selection for Displays of Partner Value and Altruism (2007, background): “Ability to recognize kin, and preferences for helping them, give benefits to genes in kin that are identical by descent to those in the helper (Hamilton 1964; Dugatkin 1997; Frank 1998; Queller and Strassmann 1998; West et al. 2002).”