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I Would Likely Lay Down My Life for Two Brothers or Eight Cousins
JBS Howldane famously quipped that he would give up his life for two brothers or eight cousins. Is that a literal application of Hamilton's rule? Does it work like that? There is an entire landscape of genetic overlap that is not easily quantified. selection may have programmed us to recognize degrees of relatedness that do not have names.