Is male unpredictability a paternity assurance strategy?

Behaviour

Volumn 141, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 675-690

  Helfenstein, Fabrice ^c   Danchin, Etienne ^a   Wagner, Richard H ^b  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR ETHOLOGY   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

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EID: 4243140527     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/1568539042245150     Document Type: Article

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