Altruism towards cousins

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1614, 2007, Pages 1181-1187

  Jeon, Joonghwan ^a   Buss, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cousin; Kin altruism; Kin selection; Paternity uncertainty; Psychological adaptation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ALTRUISM; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; KIN SELECTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; PATERNITY; RELATEDNESS;

ACCURACY; ALTRUISM; ARTICLE; EMOTION; EMPATHY; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; HUMAN; KIN SELECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOTHER; PATERNITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

EID: 34447301758     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.0366     Document Type: Article

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