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kin selection

In biology, the idea that altruism shown to genetic relatives can be worthwhile, because those relatives share some genes with the individual that is behaving altruistically, and may continue to reproduce. See inclusive fitness.

Alarm-calling in response to predators is an example of a behaviour that may have evolved through kin selection: relatives that are warned of danger can escape and continue to breed, even if the alarm caller is caught.
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