Mutual benefit cooperation and ethnic cultural diversity

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 392-399

  Castro, Laureano ^a   Toro, Miguel A ^a  

^a INIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ethnic cultural diversity; Mutual benefit; Preferential assortment

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DIVERGENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNICITY; HOMOGENEITY; METAPOPULATION;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COOPERATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNIC GROUP; EVOLUTION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEXUALITY;

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; ETHNIC GROUPS; EVOLUTION; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, GENETIC; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEXUAL PARTNERS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 34047188139     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2006.10.003     Document Type: Article

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