The hunting handicap: Costly signaling in human foraging strategies

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 9-19

  Bird, R B ^a   Smith, E A ^a   Bird, D W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Costly signaling; Handicap models; Human behavioral ecology; Hunting

Indexed keywords

TESTUDINES;

EID: 0034949471     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002650100338     Document Type: Article

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