Reproductive skew in multimember groups

American Naturalist

Volumn 153, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 315-331

  Johnstone, R A ^a   Woodroffe, R ^a   Cant, M A ^a   Wright, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal societies; Cooperative breeding; Relatedness; Reproductive skew

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; REPRODUCTION; SKEWNESS; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

EID: 0032917107     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/303169     Document Type: Article

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