kin selection
An evolutionary strategy that favors an individual organism's close kin over itselfAn evolutionary strategy that favors an individual organism's close kin over itself.
Meaning
1 senses(uncountable)An evolutionary strategy that favors an individual organism's close kin over itself.
Translations
2 languagesOrigin
Coined by John Maynard Smith in 1964 in a Nature paper titled "Group Selection and Kin SelCoined by John Maynard Smith in 1964 in a Nature paper titled "Group Selection and Kin Selection".
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Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable