AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Kin selection theory predicts that animals are more likely to behave altruistically towards their relatives than towards unrelated members of their species. Moreover, it predicts that the degree of altruism will be greater, the closer the relationship.

Detailed explanation-2: -Kin selection can be classified as an altruistic behavior and is therefore sometimes called kin altruism. Kin selection behavior is altruistic because an organism weighs the success of its relatives as greater than its own success.

Detailed explanation-3: -Kin selection occurs when an animal engages in self-sacrificial behaviour that benefits the genetic fitness of its relatives. The theory of kin selection is one of the foundations of the modern study of social behaviour.

Detailed explanation-4: -The honeybee and other social insects provide the clearest example of kin selection. They are also particularly interesting examples because of the peculiar genetic relationships among the family members. Male honeybees (drones) develop from the queen’s unfertilized eggs and are haploid.