Dominance orders in animal societies: The self-organization hypothesis revisited

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 727-757

  Bonabeau, Eric ^a   Theraulaz, Guy ^b   Deneubourg, Jean Louis ^c  

^a SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PROBABILITY; REINFORCEMENT; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIETY; WASP;

ANIMALIA; POLISTES DOMINULUS; VESPIDAE;

EID: 0032841335     PISSN: 00928240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bulm.1999.0108     Document Type: Article

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