Voting with your feet: Payoff biased migration and the evolution of group beneficial behavior

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 257, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 331-339

  Boyd, Robert ^a   Richerson, Peter J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural evolution; Equilibrium selection; Population structure

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY; GROUP BEHAVIOR; IMMIGRANT; LOCAL ADAPTATION; MIGRATION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; VOTING BEHAVIOR;

ALTRUISM; ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURE; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 60449101675     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2008.12.007     Document Type: Article

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