Sex causes altruism. Altruism causes sex. Maybe

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue 1543, 2004, Pages 993-1000

  Peck, Joel R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Altruism; Epistasis; Evolution of sex; Group selection; Population genetics

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; EVOLUTION; FITNESS; GENOTYPE; GROUP SELECTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION GENETICS;

ALTRUISM; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; FITNESS; GENE INTERACTION; GENOTYPE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEX; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 2442651264     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2650     Document Type: Article

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