J. B. S. Haldane once remarked that he'd be willing to lay down h...

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J. B. S. Haldane once remarked that he'd be willing to lay down his life to save two brothers or eight cousins. Explain what he meant.

Accepted Answer

Hello everyone and welcome to today's video. So blank is the evolutionary strategy that favors the reproductive success of an organism's relatives, even though it may cause the organism survival and reproduction. So I want you to think about this question in the following way if we have that the organisms relatives are being favored by this type of selection. Then another word for relatives is going to be kin. If you are my king, then you are my relatives. So this process is going to be called kin selection, in which a specific organism sacrifices it's fitness to increase the fitness of a relative. So I want you to think about why this happens. And the reason for this is that the relative is going to have similar or the same genes as the organism. So the genes are eventually going to be passed on even though the organism is sacrificing its own fitness in this case by its relatives. So answer choice. A kin selection is going to be the final answer to this question. And I really hope this video helped you.

J. B. S. Haldane once remarked that he'd be willing to lay down his life to save two brothers or eight cousins. Explain what he meant.

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