Democracy in animals: The evolution of shared group decisions

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1623, 2007, Pages 2317-2326

  Conradt, L ^a   Roper, T J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collective decisions; Democracy; Egalitarian decisions; Evolution of cooperation; Leadership; Self organizing systems

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; DEMOCRACY; EVOLUTION; GROUP BEHAVIOR; HETEROGENEITY;

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS; FREEDOM; GROUP DYNAMICS; HUMAN; LEADERSHIP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEAMWORK;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 34548481727     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.0186     Document Type: Article

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