Altruism through beard chromodynamics

Nature

Volumn 440, Issue 7084, 2006, Pages 663-666

  Jansen, Vincent A A ^a   Van Baalen, Minus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

ALTRUISM; GREEN BEARD EFFECT; KIN SELECTION2;

GENES;

ALTRUISM; COLOR; GENE; KIN SELECTION; TAGGING;

ALTRUISM; ARTICLE; COMPETITION; COOPERATION; EVOLUTION; FITNESS; GENE MUTATION; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; KIN SELECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 33645458812     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04387     Document Type: Article

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