On the advantages of information sharing

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 267, Issue 1450, 2000, Pages 1287-1293

  Lachmann, Michael ^a,c   Sella, Guy ^a,b   Jablonka, Eva ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ensociality; Evolution; Information sharing; Multicellularity; Public goods

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERATION; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; INFORMATION; INSECT; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; ORGANIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

INSECTA;

EID: 0034617131     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.1140     Document Type: Article

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