Cooperation built the Tower of Babel

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 95-99

  Taborsky, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; COOPERATIVE BREEDING; KIN SELECTION; MUTUALISM;

ALTRUISM; ARTICLE; COOPERATION; COOPERATIVE BREEDING; EXPECTATION; HUMAN; INTERSPECIFIC RELATIONSHIP; INVESTMENT; KIN SELECTION; LANGUAGE; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; PARASITISM; REPRODUCTION; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 34648840254     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2007.01.013     Document Type: Note

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