Group competition, reproductive leveling, and the evolution of human altruism

Science

Volumn 314, Issue 5805, 2006, Pages 1569-1572

  Bowles, Samuel ^a,b  

^a SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPETITION; LINGUISTICS;

INTERGROUP COMPETITION; LINGUISTIC CAPACITIES;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

ALTRUISM; GENETIC VARIATION; GROUP BEHAVIOR; HUMAN EVOLUTION; MONOGAMY;

ALTRUISM; ARTICLE; COMPETITION; ETHNIC GROUP; FORAGING; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; HOLOCENE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; METAPOPULATION; MONOGAMY; PLEISTOCENE; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ALTRUISM; ARCHAEOLOGY; CLIMATE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SELECTION (GENETICS); VARIATION (GENETICS); VIOLENCE; WAR;

EID: 33845417750     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1134829     Document Type: Article

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