AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Inclusive fitness is an individual’s ability to pass down their genes-both through their offspring and the offspring of close relatives with shared genes. If an animal helps a close relative improve their reproductive success, this increases the animal’s inclusive fitness, preserving the behavior in the gene pool.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hamilton’s rule is a central theorem of inclusive fitness (kin selection) theory and predicts that social behaviour evolves under specific combinations of relatedness, benefit and cost.

Detailed explanation-3: -Inclusive fitness is a method of measuring evolutionary success. It is the ability of an individual to transmit genes to the next generation, including genes shared with relatives. In accordance with this rule, an individual’s inclusive fitness can depend, in part, on altruistic behavior and cooperation.

Detailed explanation-4: -For example, inclusive fitness theory seeks to explain the existence of sterile ant workers in terms of the behaviors of the workers themselves. The proposed explanation is that workers maximize their inclusive fitness by helping the queen rather than producing their own offspring (11, 29).