title: Inclusive fitness in evolution.
abstract: Arising from M. A. Nowak, C. E. Tarnita & E. O. Wilson 466, 1057-1062 (2010); Nowak et al. reply. For over fifty years, the evolution of social behaviour has been guided by the concept of inclusive fitness as a measure of evolutionary success. Nowak et al. argue that inclusive fitness should be abandoned. In so doing, however, they misrepresent the role that inclusive fitness has played in the theory of social evolution by which understanding social behaviour in a variety of disciplines has developed and flourished. By discarding inclusive fitness on the basis of its limitations, they create a conceptual tension which, we argue, is unnecessary, and potentially dangerous for evolutionary biology.
authors: Regis
authors: R
authors: Ferriere
authors: Richard E
authors: RE
authors: Michod
mesh_terms: D000483:Alleles; D000533:Altruism; D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D005260:Female; D005716:Game Theory; D056084:Genetic Fitness / Q000235:genetics; D005828:Genetics, Population; D040941:Heredity / Q000235:genetics; D008297:Male; D008954:Models, Biological; D010641:Phenotype; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012641:Selection, Genetic / Q000235:genetics; D012744:Sex Ratio