Avoiding synchrony as a strategy of female mate choice

Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 147-176

  Schank, Jeffrey C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer simulation; Estrous synchrony; Female mate choice; Individual based modeling; Norway rats; Ovarian cycle synchrony; Women

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ESTRUS CYCLE; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAMMAL; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; OVARY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ESTRUS SYNCHRONIZATION; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OVARY; RATS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 2542592423     PISSN: 10900578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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