Are reproductive skew models evolutionarily stable?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue 1512, 2003, Pages 265-270

  Kokko, Hanna ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Evolutionary stability; Extra pair paternity; Reproductive skew; Social groups

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; REPRODUCTION; SKEWNESS;

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SCIENCE;

EID: 0037423659     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.2238     Document Type: Article

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