1. Imagine that a lion pride includes 10 females. A male working alone has a 20%...

1. Imagine that a lion pride includes 10 females. A male working alone has a 20% chance of defending a pride for a year, an act that will ensure that he produces one offspring with each of the females (10 total offspring). (a) Calculate inclusive fitness for this male. (b) Two unrelated lions working together have an 80% probability of defending a pride for a year; each female is capable of producing one offspring and mating is shared equally between the males.Calculate inclusive fitness for each of the two males. Show your work.

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Inclusive fitness theory captures how individuals can influence the transmission of their genes to future generations by influencing either their own reproductive success or that of related individuals.
Inclusive fitness is calculated by adding own reproductive success + Reproductive success of related individual.
Father is related to his offspring by 0.5 (half of his genes are transferred)
Nephew/niece are related to uncle by 0.25

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1a) inclusive fitness is 1

1b) inclusive fitness is

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