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Altruism, inclusive fitness, and "the logic of decision"
Proceedings of the Philosophy of Science Association 2002 (3):S104-S111 (2002)
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We show how Richard Jeffrey’s The Logic of Decision provides the proper formalism for calculating expected fitness for correlated encounters in general. As an illustration, some puzzles about kin selection are resolvedAuthor's Profile
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