Kinship dynamics: patterns and consequences of changes in local relatedness.

ABSTRACT: Mounting evidence suggests that patterns of local relatedness can change over time in predictable ways, a process termed kinship dynamics. Kinship dynamics may occur at the level of the population or social group, where the mean relatedness across all members of the population or group changes over time, or at the level of the individual, where an individual's relatedness to its local group changes with age. Kinship dynamics are likely to have fundamental consequences for the evolution of social behaviour and life history because they alter the inclusive fitness payoffs to actions taken at different points in time. For instance, growing evidence suggests that individual kinship dynamics have shaped the evolution of menopause and age-specific patterns of helping and harming. To date, howeve

SUBMITTER: Croft DP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8370800 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature