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kin selection

kin selection noun: an evolutionary strategy that favors an individual organism's close kin over itself.

Noun

kin selection (uncountable)

  1. An evolutionary strategy that favors an individual organism's close kin over itself.

kin selection meaning in Tamil

kin selection in Tamil

உறவினத் தேர்வு

Origin of kin selection

Coined by John Maynard Smith in 1964 in a Nature paper titled "Group Selection and Kin Selection".

Questions about kin selection

What does kin selection mean?
Kin selection means an evolutionary strategy that favors an individual organism's close kin over itself.
What is kin selection in Tamil?
Kin selection in Tamil is உறவினத் தேர்வு. See Kin selection meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is kin selection?
Kin selection is a noun.

Words near kin selection in the dictionary

  1. kimzeyite
  2. kimzeyites
  3. Kimzeys
  4. kin
  5. kin 'ell
  6. kin selection
  7. Kin Sha
  8. Kin Sha Kiang
  9. kin state
  10. kin states
  11. Kin'bidhoo

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: kin selection (page history and authors); kin selection (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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