Food sharing at meals: Kinship, reciprocity, and clustering in the taimyr autonomous okrug, Northern Russia

Human Nature

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 178-211

  Ziker, John ^a   Schnegg, Michael ^b  

^a BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Costly signaling; Evolution of cooperation; Hunter gatherers; Inclusive fitness; Parental investment; Reciprocal altruism; Siberia; Tolerated scrounging

Indexed keywords

EID: 24944566810     PISSN: 10456767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12110-005-1003-6     Document Type: Review

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