Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality

Patrick Abbot , Jun Abe (1) , John Alcock , Samuel Alizon (2) , Joao a C Alpedrinha , Malte Andersson , Jean-Baptiste André (3) , Minus van Baalen (4) , Sigal Balshine , Nick Barton (5) , Leo W Beukeboom , Jay M Biernaskie , Gerald Borgia , Michael Breed , Sam Brown , Francois Balloux (6) , Redouan Bshary (7) , Angus Buckling (8) , Nancy T Burley , Max N Burton-Chellew , Michael A Cant , Trine Bilde , Michel Chapuisat (9) , Tim Clutton-Brock (10) , Andrew Cockburn , Nick Colegrave , Leda Cosmides , Iain D Couzin (11) , Jerry A Coyne , Scott Creel , Bernard Crespi , Eric L Charnov , Robert L Curry , Sasha R X Dall , Troy Day , Blaine J Cole , Janis L Dickinson , Lee Alan Dugatkin , Claire El Mouden , Stephen T Emlen , Jay Evans , Regis Ferriere (12, 13) , Jeremy Field , Susanne Foitzik , Kevin Foster , William A Foster , Charles W Fox , Juergen Gadau , Sylvain Gandon (14) , Andy Gardner (15, 16) , Michael G Gardner , Thomas Getty , Michael a D Goodisman , Alan Grafen , Rick Grosberg , Christina M Grozinger (17) , Pierre-Henri Gouyon (18, 19) , Darryl Gwynne , Paul H Harvey , Ben J Hatchwell , Jürgen Heinze (20) , Heikki Helantera , Ken R Helms , Kim Hill (21) , Natalie Jiricny , Rufus A Johnstone , Alex Kacelnik , E Toby Kiers (22) , Hanna Kokko (23) , Jan Komdeur (24) , Judith Korb (25) , Daniel Kronauer , Rolf Kümmerli , Laurent Lehmann (26) , Timothy A Linksvayer , Sébastien Lion (27) , Bruce Lyon , James a R Marshall , Richard Mcelreath , Yannis Michalakis (28, 2) , Richard E Michod , Douglas Mock (29) , Thibaud Monnin (13) , Robert Montgomerie , Allen J Moore , Ulrich G Mueller , Ronald Noë (30) , Samir Okasha , Pekka Pamilo , Geoff A Parker , Jes S Pedersen , Ido Pen (3, 31) , David Pfennig , David C Queller (32) , Daniel J Rankin , Sarah E Reece , Hudson K Reeve , Max Reuter (33) , Gilbert Roberts , Simon K A Robson , Denis Roze (34, 35) , François Rousset (36, 3) , Olav Rueppell , Joel L Sachs , Lorenzo Santorelli , Paul Schmid-Hempel (37) , Michael P Schwarz , Tom Scott-Phillips , Janet Shellmann-Sherman , Paul W Sherman , David M Shuker , Jeff Smith , Joseph C Spagna , Beverly Strassmann , Andrew V Suarez , Liselotte Sundström , Michael Taborsky (38) , Peter Taylor (39) , Graham Thompson , John Tooby , Neil D Tsutsui , Kazuki Tsuji , Stefano Turillazzi , Francisco Ubeda , Edward L Vargo , Bernard Voelkl , Tom Wenseleers (40) , Stuart A West , Mary Jane West-Eberhard , David F Westneat (41) , Diane C Wiernasz , Geoff Wild , Richard Wrangham , Andrew J Young , David W Zeh , Jeanne A Zeh , Andrew Zink

1 National Research Institute for Child Health and Development
2 MIVEGEC-ETE - Evolution Théorique et Expérimentale
3 UMR ISEM - Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier
4 Laboratoire Ecologie et évolution
5 Institute of Archaeology
6 Medical Research Council Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling
7 Institut de Biologie
8 Department of zoology
9 Department of Ecology and Evolution - Biophore
10 Department of Zoology
11 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology [Princeton]
12 EEB - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology [Tucson]
13 FESE - Fonctionnement et évolution des systèmes écologiques
14 CEFE - Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive
15 Department of zoology
16 AOPP - Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics [Oxford]
17 University Park
18 MNHN - Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle
19 X - École polytechnique
20 Freiburg University
21 School of Human Evolution and Social Change
22 Department of Ecological Science [Amsterdam]
23 Centre of Excellence in Biological Interactions
24 Animal Ecology Group
25 Behavioural Biology
26 Stanford Univ, Dept Biol Sci
27 UvA - University of Amsterdam [Amsterdam] = Universiteit van Amsterdam
28 GEMI - Génétique et évolution des maladies infectieuses
29 Department of Biology
30 DEPE-IPHC - Département Ecologie, Physiologie et Ethologie
31 Theoretical Biology Group, Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Studies [Groningen]
32 Department of biology
33 UCL - University College of London [London]
34 AD2M - Adaptation et diversité en milieu marin
35 Polytech'Paris-UPMC
36 CETHIL - Centre de Thermique de Lyon
37 Institute of Integrative Biology (IBZ)
38 Department of Behavioural Ecology
39 School of Mathematical Sciences [Dublin]
40 KU Leuven - Catholic University of Leuven = Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
41 Department of Biology and Center for Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior

Arising from M. A. Nowak, C. E. Tarnita & E. O. Wilson 466, 1057-1062 (2010); Nowak et al. reply. Nowak et al. argue that inclusive fitness theory has been of little value in explaining the natural world, and that it has led to negligible progress in explaining the evolution of eusociality. However, we believe that their arguments are based upon a misunderstanding of evolutionary theory and a misrepresentation of the empirical literature. We will focus our comments on three general issues.

Mots clés: kin selection; cooperation

Domaines: Evolution [q-bio.PE]; Microbiologie et Parasitologie; Modélisation et simulation; Systématique, phylogénie et taxonomie

Patrick Abbot, Jun Abe, John Alcock, Samuel Alizon, Joao a C Alpedrinha, et al.. Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality. Nature, 2011, 471 (7339), pp.E1-4. ⟨10.1038/nature09831⟩. ⟨hal-01567932⟩