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JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
Volume 25, Issue 8, Pages 1472-1478Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2012.02553.x
Keywords
genetic relatedness; kin recognition; phenotype matching; self-resemblance; spite
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- SSHRC
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The evolution of spite entails actors imposing costs on negative relatives: those who are less likely than chance to share the actors alleles and therefore more likely to bear rival alleles. Yet, despite a considerable body of research confirming that organisms can recognize positive relatives, little research has shown that organisms can recognize negative relatives. Here, we extend previous work on human phenotype matching by introducing a cue to negative relatedness: negative self-resembling faces, which differ from an average face in the opposite direction to the way an individuals own face differs from the average. Participants made trustworthiness and attractiveness judgements of pairs of opposite-sex positive and negative self-resembling faces. Analyses revealed opposing effects of positive and negative self-resembling faces on trustworthiness and attractiveness judgements. This is the first clear evidence that humans are sensitive to negative relatedness cues, and suggests the potential for the adaptive allocation of spiteful behaviour.
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