Dominance as adaptive stressing and ranking of males, serving to allocate reproduction by differential self-suppressed fertility: Towards a fully biological understanding of social systems

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 5-14

  Moxon, Steve ^a  

^a NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; DOMINANCE BEHAVIOR; EDITORIAL; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FERTILITY; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; STRESS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 64749097622     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2009.02.011     Document Type: Editorial

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