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Clonal identity and parentage (Chapter 5) are extreme examples of close kinship, but now we shall be concerned with genetic relatedness within and among broader groups of extended kin. Questions of genetic relatedness arise in virtually all discussions of social species where particular morphologies and behaviors might have evolved as predicted under theories of kin selection and inclusive fitness (Box 6.1). Interest in kinship also arises for any species whose populations are structured spatially, perhaps along family lines. At increasingly greater depths in time, all conspecific individuals are related genealogically through an extended pedigree that constitutes the intraspecific phylogeny of a species.
..community of descent is the hidden bond which naturalists have been unconsciously seeking.
C. Darwin, 1859
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Avise, J.C. (1994). Kinship and Intraspecific Phylogeny. In: Molecular Markers, Natural History and Evolution. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2381-9_6
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