The co-evolution of culturally inherited altruistic helping and cultural transmission under random group formation

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 506-516

  Lehmann, Laurent ^a   Feldman, Marcus W ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Altruism; Conformist transmission; Cultural transmission; Genetic transmission; Group selection; Relatedness

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; COEVOLUTION; CULTURE; EUSOCIALITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; KIN SELECTION; MIGRATION; RELATEDNESS;

ALLELE; ALTRUISM; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR GENETICS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COOPERATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MIGRATION; POPULATION DENSITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ALLELES; ALTRUISM; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, BEHAVIORAL; HELPING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, GENETIC; POPULATION DENSITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELECTION (GENETICS); VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 43249085917     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2008.02.004     Document Type: Article

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