Re: Hamilton's rule in small population

In article <dkc1ug$1ekt$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Catherine Woodgold <an588@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Joe Felsenstein (joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) writes:
>> If those parents aren't
>> any more related than a random pair of individuals, you can stop right
>> there are declare it your base population.
>
>I don't think that's right. The parents may not be any
>more related to each other than to a random member of the
>population. But if the population is sizable, then
>the sibling of one of the parents, or the offspring of
>a sibling of one of the parents, for example, would still usually be
>more closely related to the focal individual than
>a randomly-selected member of the population.

Sure, and so will some other folks, but why does that affect the conditions for
increase of an altruistic allele, if all recipients of acts are either siblings
or unrelated individuals?

--
Joe Felsenstein joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology,
University of Washington, Box 357730, Seattle, WA 98195-7730 USA

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