Social foraging and the behavioral ecology of intragroup resource transfers

Evolutionary Anthropology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 46-57

  Winterhalder, Bruce ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Exchange; Hunter gatherers; Primitive economics; Risk; Scrounging; Sharing

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; COLOBINAE; COLOBUS SP.; HOMINIDAE; PAN (APE); PAN TROGLODYTES; PROCOLOBUS BADIUS; UNGULATA;

EID: 0030299477     PISSN: 10601538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6505(1996)5:2<46::AID-EVAN4>3.0.CO;2-U     Document Type: Article

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