The presence of altruistic behavior is most likely due to kin selection, a theory maintaining that
A) aggression between sexes promotes the survival of the fittest individuals.
B) genes enhance survival of copies of themselves by directing organisms to assist others who share those genes.
C) companionship is advantageous to animals because in the future they can help each other.
D) critical thinking abilities are normal traits for animals and they have arisen, like other traits, through natural selection.
E) natural selection has generally favored the evolution of exaggerated aggressive and submissive behaviors to resolve conflict without grave harm to participants.
The clonal selection hypothesis
Microscopic photo taken by Opportunity showing a gray hematite concretion, indicative of the past pr
The birth weight of human infants is tightly constrained by natural selection.
Both humans and apes readily engage in learned imitative behavior.
Effect of Inactivation of the Insula on Reinstatement of Drug-Seeking Behavior in Rats
Mendel’s observations about segregation and independent assortment are explained by the behavior ...