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Comment author: timtyler 06 May 2011 09:38:47PM *  1 point [-]

The standard story when dealing with inclusive fitness in evolutionary arguments is that my sibling's life is worth half of mine and my cousin's life is worth a quarter of mine.

...if your expected reproductive output happens to be the same. Otherwise you would be well advised to multiply by that.

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