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Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality

2011; Nature Portfolio; Volume: 471; Issue: 7339 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1038/nature09831

1476-4687

Patrick Abbot, Jun Abe, John Alcock, Samuel Alizon, João Alpedrinha, Malte Andersson, Jean‐Baptiste André, Minus van Baalen, François Balloux, Sigal Balshine, Nick Barton, Leo W. Beukeboom, Jay M. Biernaskie, Trine Bilde, Gerald Borgia, Michael D. Breed, Sam P. Brown, Redouan Bshary, Angus Buckling, Nancy Tyler Burley, Maxwell N. Burton-Chellew, Michael A. Cant, Michel Chapuisat, Eric L. Charnov, Tim Clutton‐Brock, Andrew Cockburn, Blaine J. Cole, Nick Colegrave, Leda Cosmides, Iain D. Couzin, Jerry A. Coyne, Scott Creel, Bernard J. Crespi, Robert L. Curry, Sasha R. X. Dall, Troy Day, Janis L. Dickinson, Lee Alan Dugatkin, Claire El Mouden, Stephen T. Emlen, Jay D. Evans, Régis Ferrière, Jeremy Field, Susanne Foitzik, Kevin R. Foster, William A. Foster, Charles W. Fox, Juergen Gadau, Sylvain Gandon, Andy Gardner, M. Gardner, Thomas Getty, Michael A. D. Goodisman, Alan Grafen, Rick Grosberg, Christina M. Grozinger, Pierre-Henri Gouyon, Darryl Gwynne, Paul Harvey, Ben J. Hatchwell, Jürgen Heınze, Heikki Helanterä, Ken R. Helms, Kim Hill, Natalie Jiricny, Rufus A. Johnstone, Alex Kacelnik, E. Toby Kiers, Hanna Kokko, Jan Komdeur, Judith Korb, Daniel J. C. Kronauer, Rolf Kümmerli, Laurent Lehmann, Timothy A. Linksvayer, Sébastien Lion, Bruce E. Lyon, James A. R. Marshall, Richard McElreath, Yannis Michalakis, Richard E. Michod, Douglas W. Mock, Thibaud Monnin, Robert Montgomerie, Allen J. Moore, Ulrich G. Mueller, Ronald Noë, Samir Okasha, Pekka Pamilo, George A. Parker, Jes S. Pedersen, Ido Pen, David W. Pfennig, David C. Queller, Daniel J. Rankin, Sarah E. Reece, H. Kern Reeve, Max Reuter, Gilbert Roberts, Simon K. A. Robson, Denis Roze, François Rousset, Olav Rueppell, Joel L. Sachs, Lorenzo A. Santorelli, Paul Schmid‐Hempel, Michael P. Schwarz, Tom Scott-Phillips, Janet Shellmann-Sherman, Paul W. Sherman, David M. Shuker, Jeff Smith, Joseph C. Spagna, Beverly I. Strassmann, Andrew V. Suarez, Liselotte Sundström, Michael Taborsky, Peter Taylor, Graham Thompson, John Tooby, Neil D. Tsutsui, Kazuki Tsuji, Stefano Turillazzi, Francisco Úbeda, Edward L. Vargo, Bernhard Voelkl, Tom Wenseleers, Stuart A. West, Mary Jane West‐Eberhard, David F. Westneat, Diane C. Wiernasz, Geoff Wild, Richard W. Wrangham, Andrew J. Young, David W. Zeh, Jeanne A. Zeh, Andrew G. Zink,

Plant and animal studies

Arising from M. A. Nowak, C. E. Tarnita & E. O. Wilson , 1057–1062 (2010)10.1038/nature09205 ; Nowak et al. reply Nowak et al.1 argue that inclusive fitness theory has been of little value in explaining the natural world, and that it has led to negligible progress in explaining the evolution of eusociality. However, we believe that their arguments are based upon a misunderstanding of evolutionary theory and a misrepresentation of the empirical literature. We will focus our comments on three general issues.