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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by

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scavengers they can be real pests so we recommend just giving them whatever [Scavengers at peoples feet]

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there after and sending them on their way ...like the IRS all right check

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out the passage....[Mumbling]

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How do the naked mole-rats described in passage 2

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not the ones from Kim-possible that the criteria of Hamilton's rule as described

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in passage 1 and here are the potential answers... Remember Kim-Possible?

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...All right well what do you know Hamilton's rule is rearing its ugly head [Horse chewing hay]

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again just when we think we're out it keeps pulling us back in, Godfather 3

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ask your parents... Here we're being asked to take a look at the naked [Pictures of naked mole-rats]

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mole rats not too close now they'll nip your nose and apply Hamilton's rule to

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their interaction and see how it applies well as a refresher Hamilton's rule is

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expressed as a formula thats r times B is greater than C which basically means

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that altruism among the species will be present if the relationship between the [Hamilton's formula]

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members and the benefit to the community outweighs the cost, so penny pinchers are

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not welcome here let's take a look at B) for starters there are no cost to

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the non-breeding members well that ain't true the non-breeding members don't get [A van and car parked outside a motel]

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to do what you know the fun stuff instead while the breeders are having a

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grand old time the non breeders are busy building tunnels transporting food and [Trucks transporting food driving by]

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so on if you ask them, there is definitely a cost all that labor, not that

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they're complaining but just happy to be gainfully employed...okay then what about [Woman labor worker]

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C) non-breeding members demonstrate altruism only toward their queens no

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royal treatment here everyone in the colony is basically an equal even if [People stood together as equals]

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some of them are doing a bit more of the heavy lifting well, we take that

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back everyone's an equal except for Claude, that guys a rockstar...Okay so it

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isn't C) moving on, D) the cost of some members of a colony are higher than

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the cost of others well yeah certain mole rats are footing in OT but that's

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only half the equation, literally look at that Hamilton's rule formula [Man working and Hamilton's rule formula appears]

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again yeah this option isn't taking into account the benefits just the cost so

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option D) is trying to pull the wool over your eyes you dirty mole rat old movie [Man appears shouting you dirty mole rat]

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..Okay well then it's got to be A) right the

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benefits of working for breeding members outweigh the costs of working that's

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totally accurate and also addresses both halves of the formula of course we didn't [Wardrobe doors open and reveals Hamilton's rule]

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figure all this out ourselves we just put a couple of non-breeding mole rats

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to work for us here at shmoop.. those guys are so industrious [Mole-rat wearing a flat cap]

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