Decision-making in variable environments - A case of group selection and inter-generational conflict?

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 121-128

  Heesch, Daniel ^a   Little, Max ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bet hedging; Environmental stochasticity; Evolutionary conflict; Fitness measures

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; GROUP SELECTION; STOCHASTICITY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION GENETICS; REPRODUCTION; STATISTICS;

ANIMALS; ANTS; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCTION; SELECTION (GENETICS); STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 31344468321     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2005.08.003     Document Type: Article

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