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andygardner.bsky.social
New paper: "Kin selection in plants" (#OpenAccess), with Rubén Torices, José Gómez & John Pannell.

doi.org/10.1146/annu...

#KinSelection #Plants #OA @annualreviews.bsky.social
Detail of the first page of the paper
November 10, 2026 at 10:01 AM
jpecol.bsky.social
Renfei Chen et al. theoretically demonstrated that plants under #KinSelection are more likely to shift from growth to reproduction in an abrupt way when the initial value of the ratio between reproductive and vegetative #Biomass is high.
#ResourceAllocation
doi.org/10.1093/jpe/...
Change in reproductive effort over time at the population level for both the giver (blue lines) and the receiver (red lines) individuals, respectively.
May 9, 2025 at 9:47 PM
jzoology.bsky.social
Exploring the complexities of cooperative #breeding: insights from African wild dog packs - #OpenAccess zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #carnivores #Africanwilddog #kinselection @elissazcameron.bsky.social @conservresearch.bsky.social @wileyecology.bsky.social
December 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM
dryool.bsky.social
A fantastic primer from #InOurTime on the weirdness that is #SlimeMold biology. Including one aspect I've always been curious about: cheating in the aggregation phase, and are stalk cells all suckers? Turns out (quelle surprise!) that #KinSelection features ...
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In Our Time - Slime Moulds - BBC Sounds
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the remarkable world of slime mould.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 2, 2025 at 7:27 PM
marcrr.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy
Bat-kin selection by @ZachWeinersmith https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/altruism-2
#kinselection #naturalselection #Evolution #batman #smbc
2 kids speaking on top of a mountain: "Maybe evolution isn't the best framework for ethics" "Batman's just trying to bat-propagate his bat-genes!"
August 15, 2024 at 7:02 AM