From individual control to majority rule: Extending transactional models of reproductive skew in animal societies

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue 1519, 2003, Pages 1041-1045

  Reeve, Hudson Kern ^a   Jeanne, Robert L ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Dominance; Kin selection; Reproductive skew; Staying incentives; Worker policing

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EUSOCIALITY; EVOLUTION; KIN SELECTION; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SKEWNESS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WORKER POLICING;

ANIMAL SOCIETY; ARTICLE; DOMINANCE BEHAVIOR; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; THEORY;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 0037854317     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.2253     Document Type: Article

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