KAMA: A temperature-driven model of mate choice using dynamic partner representations

Adaptive Behavior

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 71-95

  French, Robert M ^a   Kus, Elif T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^b BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Computational temperature; Dating; Emergence; First marriage age; First marriage hazard rates; Males ask females decide; Marriage; Mate choice; Mate selection; Mate choice modeling; Mating strategies; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 38349076609     PISSN: 10597123     EISSN: 17412633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1059712307087598     Document Type: Article

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