Individual and social discounting in a viscous population

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1669, 2009, Pages 2955-2962

  Sozou, Peter D ^a,b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Altruism; Discount rate; Discounting; Dispersal; Kin selection; Social discounting

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DISCOUNT RATE; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; POPULATION POLICY; SOCIAL POLICY;

ALTRUISM; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; EVOLUTION; INDIVIDUALITY; KIN SELECTION; MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 68249124270     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0401     Document Type: Article

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