Darwin's 'one special difficulty': Celebrating Darwin 200

Biology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 214-217

  Herbers, Joan M ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Darwin; Eusocial evolution; Hamilton; Kin selection

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; BIODIVERSITY; CLINICAL RESEARCH; EUSOCIAL EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FERTILITY; HAMILTON SCALE; HUMAN; KIN SELECTION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC FIGURE; SEX DETERMINATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STATUS; ANIMAL; EDITORIAL; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; INSECT; MALE;

HEXAPODA;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; INSECTS; MALE; SELECTION (GENETICS); SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 65349192811     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0014     Document Type: Note

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