Strong altruism can evolve in randomly formed groups

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 228, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 303-313

  Fletcher, Jeffrey A ^a   Zwick, Martin ^a  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Altruism; Haystack model; Multilevel selection; Positive assortment; Randomly formed groups

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; EVOLUTION;

ALTRUISM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; KIN SELECTION; MODEL; PARAMETER; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION SIZE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RANDOMIZATION; SIMULATION; STATISTICS; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

ALTRUISM; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; GROUP PROCESSES; MODELS, GENETIC;

EID: 2342520040     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2004.01.004     Document Type: Article

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