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Animal Behaviour PS318A Student No: 0012286 Evaluate the range of mechanisms that animals' use to recognise each other? This essay will be examining what the ranges of mechanisms are in place, that animals use to recognise their kin from non-family members. It will incorporate numerous journal articles in the hope of identifying how this is done, and whether there are major advantages to this. It will evaluate the selfish gene theory put forward by Dawkin, and it will seek to establish whether this approach is too critical of evolution, or whether if it is indeed the case. Kin recognition is the ability to identify relatives. More accurately, it is treating members of the same species, group, or family in a way that depends on their genetic relatedness to the specific animal. Generally, there are two kinds of issues about kin recognition. Firstly, what function and purpose does it serve, and second, how do animals recognise...

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