Nurturing Life Sciences
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#XL - T Zoology
Social behaviour includes all kind of interaction between individuals of the same species.
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Interactions are classified by how they affect the fitnesses of the two individuals.
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Evolution might favor traits that benefit the population or species, When one individual’s behavior benefits another, the behavior is cooperative.
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When the fitness interests of two individuals are different, they are in conflict.
The evolution of cooperation and conflict depends on when these kinds of behaviors are favored by natural selection.
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Selfish (cheater) genotypes are expected to increase within populations, a trait that benefits the group would have to evolve by selection among groups, rather than by selection among individual organisms within the groups.