Reproductive skew and group size: An N-person staying incentive model

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 640-647

  Reeve, Hudson Kern ^a   Emlen, Stephen T ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperative breeding; Dominance; Ecological constraints; Eusociality; Group size; Relatedness; Skew

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE BREEDING; DOMINANCE; EUSOCIALITY; GROUP SIZE; RELATEDNESS; SKEWNESS;

EID: 0034580827     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/11.6.640     Document Type: Article

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