Hamilton, WD

Japanese: Hamilton,W.D.(英語表記)HamiltonWD
Hamilton, WD

… Social insects include individuals called workers (worker bees, worker ants) who take care of their younger siblings without giving birth to offspring themselves. How the genes that express this altruistic behavior are passed on to offspring has been a mystery since C. Darwin, but in 1964, W.D. Hamilton revealed that if the actions of workers result in more siblings who inherit some of the same genes as workers from their parents surviving and leaving many offspring, then the worker's genes are also passed on to offspring through a bypass via close relatives. This type of bypass selection is called kin selection. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Hamilton, WD" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

… 社会性昆虫には,ワーカー(働きバチ,働きアリ)と呼ばれる自分は子を産まずに弟妹の世話をする個体がいる。こういう利他的行動を発現させる遺伝子がどうして子孫に伝わったかはC.ダーウィン以来のなぞであったが,1964年ハミルトンW.D.Hamiltonは,ワーカーの行為によってワーカーと同じ遺伝子を一部父母からもらっている弟妹がよく生存し,たくさんの子を残すなら,ワーカーの遺伝子も近親者というバイパスを通じて子孫に伝わることを明らかにした。このようなバイパスを通じての淘汰が血縁淘汰である。…

※「Hamilton,W.D.」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報

<<:  Hamlet

>>:  Hamilton, R.

Recommend

Crown Court

…The main sources of law are common law, equity l...

Anne Boleyn

1507‐36 Anne was the second queen of King Henry VI...

Antiochene School - Antiochene School

A theological tradition that developed in the Syri...

Eichhorn, A.

…an academic movement and circle started by a gro...

Awaji Province - Awaji no Kuni

The old name of Awaji Island, Hyogo Prefecture. I...

Fungus patch - Kinto

...Plants that have fungi living symbiotically on...

Ijira [village] - Ijira

A village in Yamagata County in southwestern Gifu ...

Mujinamo - Mujinamo

A perennial plant of the Droseraceae family (APG ...

Bréal, Michel

Born: March 26, 1832 in Landau Died November 25, 1...

al-Muqaddasī (English spelling) alMuqaddasi

…Jerusalem-born Arab geographer and great travell...

Hemorrhage - Ikkehan

…Small bleeding the size of a bean or less occurs...

Geel

…When Iwakura Hospital became a naval hospital in...

Gold, T. (English spelling) GoldT

…In the late 1940s, the value of the Hubble const...

Cetane number - Setanka (English spelling)

It is an index showing the ignition quality of di...

Conjugate Axes

...If the constant is 2a and the length of the li...