Reproductive skew theory extended: The effect of resource inheritance on social organization

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 1, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 859-874

  Ragsdale, Janice E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Future fitness; Queue; Reproductive skew; Resource inheritance; Social organization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000490820     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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