Question

During the hurricane and subsequent flooding in new orleans several years ago, survivors reported that they were much more likely to search for displaced family members than for friends. this finding supports the idea of

Answer 1

This finding supports the idea of "Kin selection".

Kin selection means the evolutionary strategy that supports the conceptive achievement of a living being's relatives, even at a cost to the life form's own particular survival and generation. In his famous book The Origin of Species Charles Darwin discussed this idea in 1859.