How costly is the honest signaling of need?

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 197, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 527-539

  Nöldeke, Georg ^a   Samuelson, Larry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFLICT; EVOLUTION; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SIBLING;

EID: 0033590953     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jtbi.1998.0893     Document Type: Article

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