Leaders, followers and group decision-making

Communicative and Integrative Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 147-150

  King, Andrew J ^a,b   Cowlishaw, Guy ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decisions; Followers; Group living; Leaders; Social relationships

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; AVES; HEXAPODA; PRIMATES;

EID: 67650630567     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19420889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cib.7562     Document Type: Short Survey

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