Usually means: Natural selection favoring related individuals.
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  1. kin selection: Merriam-Webster
  2. kin selection: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. kin selection: Collins English Dictionary
  4. kin selection: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. kin selection: Dictionary.com
  6. Kin selection: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. kin selection: TheFreeDictionary.com
  8. kin selection: Wiktionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. kin selection: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (kin selection)

noun:  (biology) An evolutionary strategy that favors an individual organism's close kin over itself.

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