Everything about Kin Recognition totally explained
Kin recognition refers to animals' capabilities to distinguish between close genetic kin and non-kin. In
evolutionary biology and in
psychology, such capabilities are presumed to have evolved to serve the adaptive functions of
kin altruism (see
kin selection) and
inbreeding avoidance. Apart from a few exceptional cases (for example, the
green-beard effect), kin recognition is achieved via several cue-based mechanisms (for example,
imprinting, phenotype matching). Because kin recognition is cue based, errors sometimes occur. A well-known example is the
Westermarck effect in which unrelated individuals who spend their childhood in the same household find each other sexually unattractive.
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