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“For example, predator dilution effects require only that individuals remain close to each other [28], as do some public goods in bacteria [18].”
From The social origins of consciousness (2025) · cites this paper as [28]
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“…of organisms living in close proximity mitigate the risk of pre-dation as collective vigilance and flight distance reduce the probability of any particular individual dying to a predator (Alexander, 1974; Hamilton, 1971; Hill & Lee, 1998; Olson et al., 2015; Powell, 1974; P. W. Sherman, 1977).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Hamilton, W. D.
- Affiliations
- Imperial College London (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Hamilton, W.D.
- Venue
- Journal of Theoretical Biology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1971-05
- Volume
- 31
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 295-311
- ISSN
- 0022-5193 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1998143474
- Cited by
- 3,506
- References
- 19
- Citations by year
- 2026: 70 · 2025: 123 · 2024: 77 · 2023: 89 · 2022: 96 · 2021: 98 · 2020: 117 · 2019: 143 · 2018: 131 · 2017: 122 · 2016: 110 · 2015: 109 · 2014: 121 · 2013: 101 · 2012: 102
- FWCI
- 21.69
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Theoretical Biology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
- Keywords
- gregariousness, animal aggregation, predator avoidance, geometric probability, selection theory
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Anura, Behavior, Animal, Breeding, Communication, Biological Evolution, Fear, Metallurgy, Models, Biological, Probability, Snakes, Spatial Behavior
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