The concept was first articulated by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace who described it as driving species adaptations and that many organisms had evolved features whose function was deleterious to their individual survival, and then developed by Ronald Fisher in the early 20th century.
O concepto foi articulado por primeira vez por Charles Darwin e Alfred Russel Wallace que a describiron como un proceso que leva á especiación, mediante o cal en moitos organismos evolucionaron características cuxa función era deletérea para a súa supervivencia individual, e despois desenvolveuna Ronald Fisher a principios do século XX.