Helping effort and future fitness in cooperative animal societies

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 268, Issue 1479, 2001, Pages 1959-1964

  Cant, M A ^a   Field, J ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperative breeding; Eusociality; Helping behaviour; Inheritance

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GROUP BEHAVIOR; KIN SELECTION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERATION; FEMALE; INHERITANCE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; WASP;

EID: 0035934616     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2001.1754     Document Type: Article

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