Definition for Hamilton's rule
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The proposal that an altruistic gene will be favoured by natural selection when r > C/B where r is the coefficient of relatedness of the donor (the altruist) to the recipient, B is the benefit received by the recipients of the altruism, and C is the cost incurred by the donor.