• Medicine, Biology
• Published in Current Biology 2007
• DOI:10.1016/j.cub.2007.07.030

Social Evolution: The Decline and Fall of Genetic Kin Recognition

@article{Gardner2007SocialET,
  title={Social Evolution: The Decline and Fall of Genetic Kin Recognition},
  author={Andy Gardner and Stuart A. West},
  journal={Current Biology},
  year={2007},
  volume={17},
  pages={R810-R812}
}

• Andy Gardner, Stuart A. West

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Animals should benefit from the ability to recognise their kin, yet curiously this faculty is often absent. New theory confirms that genetic kin recognition is inherently unstable, explaining its rarity.