The Strategic Dynamics of Cooperation in Primate Groups

Advances in the Study of Behavior

Volumn 37, Issue , 2007, Pages 1-41

  Silk, Joan B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 35548932838     PISSN: 00653454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-3454(07)37001-0     Document Type: Review

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