Cooperation theory meets cooperative breeding: exposing some ugly truths about social prestige, reciprocity and group augmentation

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 142-148

  Wright, Jonathan ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE BREEDING; GROUP BEHAVIOR; RECIPROCITY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ARTICLE; COOPERATION; COOPERATIVE BREEDING; GROUP PSYCHOLOGY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; THEORY;

EID: 34648816932     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2007.01.017     Document Type: Note

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