Are we stalled part way through a major evolutionary transition from individual to group

Evolution

Volumn 61, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2275-2280

  Stearns, Stephen C ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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CONFLICT; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; GROUP PROCESS; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; NOTE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); EVOLUTION; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SELECTION (GENETICS); SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 34848847796     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00202.x     Document Type: Note

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