Kin selection is an evolutionary strategy that favors the reproductive success of an organism's relatives, even at a cost to the organism's own survival and reproduction. This strategy is driven by the principle of inclusive fitness, which considers the genetic success of an individual as a combination of its own offspring and the offspring of its relatives who share common genes.

Kin Selection

Kin selection

Evolutionary Strategy (ES) is an optimization algorithm inspired by the process of natural evolution, where a population of candidate solutions evolves over generations to improve performance on a given task. It emphasizes mutation and selection mechanisms, often using a population-based approach to explore complex search spaces and discover optimal or near-optimal solutions.

evolutionary strategy

Reproductive success refers to the passing of genes onto the next generation in a way that they too can pass on those genes. It is a measure of an individual's genetic contribution to the subsequent generation, often influenced by factors like mate selection, fertility, and survival of offspring.

reproductive success

organism's relatives

Cost to survival

Cost to reproduction

principle of inclusive fitness

genetic success

own offspring

Offspring of relatives

common genes

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