George R. Price
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George Robert Price was an American population geneticist. Price is often noted for his formulation of the Price equation in 1967.
George Robert Price
Kin selection
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Kin selection is a process whereby natural selection favours a trait due to its positive effects on the reproductive success of an organism's relatives, even when at a cost to the organism's own survi
George R. Price
…1967, where he worked in theoretical biology at the Galton Laboratory, making three important contributions: first, rederiving W.D. Hamilton's work on kin selection with the new Price equation that vindicated group selection; second, introducing (with John Maynard Smith) the concept of the evolutionarily stable…
The co-operative behaviour of social insects like the honey bee can be explained by kin selection.
Charles Darwin wrote that selection could be applied to the family as well as to the individual.
The evolutionary biologist John Maynard Smith used the term "kin selection" in 1964.
Kin recognition theory predicts a selective advantage for the bearers of a trait (like the fictitious 'green beard') behave altruistically towards others with the same trait.