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On Hamilton’s Rule and Inclusive Fitness Theory with Nonadditive Payoffs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Samir Okasha
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Abstract

Hamilton’s theory of inclusive fitness is a widely used framework for studying the evolution of social behavior, but controversy surrounds its status. Hamilton originally derived his famous rb > c rule for the spread of a social gene by assuming additivity of costs and benefits. However, it has recently been argued that the additivity assumption can be dispensed with, so long as the −c and b terms are suitably defined, as partial regression coefficients. I argue that this way of generalizing Hamilton’s rule to the nonadditive case, while formally correct, faces conceptual problems.

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50 Years of Inclusive Fitness
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 83 , Issue 5 , December 2016 , pp. 873 - 883
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Copyright © The Philosophy of Science Association

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Thanks to Johannes Martens, Jonathan Birch, Andy Gardner, James Marshall, and Alan Grafen for comments and discussion. This work was supported by the European Research Council Seventh Framework Program (FP7/20072013), ERC grant agreement 295449.

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