AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -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. Kin selection also encourages the proliferation of altruistic traits.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Kin selection is a way of understanding allele frequency change as a consequence of the actions and interactions among individuals who share alleles by recent common descent – ie, kin.

Detailed explanation-4: -Kin selection is the evolutionary strategy that favours the reproductive success of an organism’s relatives, even when at a cost to the organism’s own survival and reproduction. Kin altruism can look like altruistic behaviour whose evolution is driven by kin selection.