Green-beard Effect Definition
A hypothesis in evolutionary biology that explains selective altruism among individuals of a species , involving preferential treatment of individuals with certain characteristics.
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Origin of Green-beard Effect
From a hypothetical example used in Richard Dawkins' book The Selfish Gene (1976), whereby a person with a green beard acts altruistically towards other people with green beards.
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