As a mathematician (but not an expert on mixed effects models) it seems to me that the Price equation from kin selection is a tautology, yet I suspect that when combined with biological intuition and mixed effects modeling ideas there should be a non-trivial message. Can somebody with the necessary background shed an inter-disciplinary light on this message or point me to references that do? Has there been any recent work using mixed effects models on kin selection, Hamilton's rule, etc.? Thanks, Dominick
Kin selection and mixed models
2 messages · Dominick Samperi, Jarrod Hadfield
Hi, Quantitative genetic models are linear mixed models, and there are plenty of derivations of Hamilton's rule in terms of quantitative genetics. A good start is David Queller's work in the early 1990's, Steve Frank's book "Foundations of Social Selection" and Andy Gardner's 2007 paper in Am. Nat. to name but a few. Recent work by Bijma's is probably more accessible if you are familiar with mixed model methodology. This is just the tip of the iceberg ..... Cheers, Jarrod
On 7 Mar 2011, at 17:40, Dominick Samperi wrote:
As a mathematician (but not an expert on mixed effects models) it seems to me that the Price equation from kin selection is a tautology, yet I suspect that when combined with biological intuition and mixed effects modeling ideas there should be a non-trivial message. Can somebody with the necessary background shed an inter-disciplinary light on this message or point me to references that do? Has there been any recent work using mixed effects models on kin selection, Hamilton's rule, etc.? Thanks, Dominick
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