{"id":8196,"date":"2019-05-22T16:05:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/inclusive_fitness\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:05:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:05:04","slug":"inclusive_fitness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/inclusive_fitness\/","title":{"rendered":"Inclusive fitness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A concept in population genetics describing the difference in&nbsp;reproductive success of an individual or genotype relative to another. &nbsp;It is often treated as a mixture of survival, or longevity, and annual fecundity, and regarded as the degree of adaptation of an organism to its environment. &nbsp;The concept also includes benefits accrued to relatives of an individual in terms of an altruistic act toward them enhancing the fitness of the individual performing the act. &nbsp;From Darwin culminating in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edge.org\/3rd_culture\/hamilton\/hamilton_index.html\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.edge.org\/3rd_culture\/hamilton\/hamilton_index.html&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">W.D. Hamilton<\/a> (1936-2000), there is now a testable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.genetics.org\/content\/176\/3\/1375.full\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.genetics.org\/content\/176\/3\/1375.full&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">theory of inclusive fitness<\/a>. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"adaptation\">Adaptation<\/a>, <a href=\"cultural_evolution_and_biological_evolution\">Cultural evolution and biological evolution<\/a>, <a href=\"genotype_and_phenotype\">Genotype and phenotype<\/a>, Population genetics     <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A concept in population genetics describing the difference in&nbsp;reproductive success of an individual or genotype relative to another. &nbsp;It is often treated as a mixture of survival, or longevity, and annual fecundity, and regarded as the degree of adaptation of an organism to its environment. &nbsp;The concept also includes benefits accrued to relatives of an &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/inclusive_fitness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Inclusive fitness&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}