The Individual Selectionist Explanations of Altruism

David Wheeler: I want to briefly canvas some of the individual selectionist explanations of altruism. He says we have kin selection, reciprocal altruism, and indirect reciprocity. But those are certainly when you think of the main frameworks that pass as alternatives to group selection, then those are the main ones,. Great. So just so we know what we're up against, can you give us a brief outline of each of those? Let's start with kin selection.

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