title: Evolution-oriented ethology, kin selection, and altruistic parasites.
abstract: The genetic theory of social behaviour challenges ethology to incorporate the study of invertebrates and lower animals; to search for behaviour mechanisms that contribute to the maximization of "inclusive fitness" (rather than to the maintenance of the individual and the species); and to intensify the study of social consequences and interindividual differences in species-specific behaviour.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001000:Ants / Q000469:parasitology; D001522:Behavior, Animal; D005075:Biological Evolution; D004013:Dicrocoelium; D007448:Invertebrates; D012919:Social Behavior; D013045:Species Specificity