timtyler comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 4 - Less Wrong
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Yes: sex and death!
Their model exhibits locality (with limited diffusion - V.N. or 5x5 neighbourhood) as well.
So: a death benefits kin not just through immunological similarity - but also because neighbours are likely to be kin - and death takes an adjacent pathogen load out of circulation.