Essays about: "Kin selection"

Found 3 essays containing the words Kin selection.

  1. 1. Evolutionary Theories of Menopause

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för fysik, kemi och biologi

    Author : Fanny Hägg; [2020]
    Keywords : Menopause; Post-reproduction; The grandmother hypothesis; The reproductive conflict hypothesis; Inclusive fitness; Kin selection; Odontoceti; Orcinus orca;

    Abstract : Menopause, the cessation of female reproduction well before death, is a puzzling phenomenon, because evolutionary theory suggests there should be no selection for survival when reproduction has ended. Nevertheless, menopause does exist in a limited number of species, and besides humans it has predominately evolved among toothed whales (Odontoceti). READ MORE

  3. 2. IMPERIAL RHETORIC AND THE FINNISH OTHER IN RUSSIAN LITERATURE in selected works of Aleksandr Puškin and Fëdor Dostojevskij

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Tuomas Taavila; [2017-06-16]
    Keywords : ryska; Russian Empire; Finland; literature; Aleksandr Puškin; Fëdor Dostojevskij; nation building; imperial rhetoric; devices of colonization;

    Abstract : Inspired by the ongoing debate on Russia’s imperial revival, this paper is set to explore earlier manifestations of Russian imperial rhetoric in Russian literature of the 1800s. The second aim of this study is to analyse the imperial rhetoric with reference to one of Russia’s neighbouring countries, Finland. READ MORE

  4. 3. Reciprocity, Nepotism or Costly Signaling – Evidence from Mobile Phone Money Transfers in Nairobi

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Martin Eriksson; [2010]
    Keywords : costly signaling; nepotism; reciprocal altruism; mobile phone money transfers; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to test whether the theories of reciprocal altruism, nepotism due to kin selection and costly signaling can explain patterns of human altruism. A new way of investigating this has surfaced since the introduction of mobile phone money transfers in areas where social sharing is frequently exercised. READ MORE