Evolving the ingredients for reciprocity and spite

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 364, Issue 1533, 2009, Pages 3255-3266

  Hauser, Marc ^a,b   McAuliffe, Katherine ^b   Blake, Peter R ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Proximal constraints; Reciprocal altruism; Spite; Ultimate pressures

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ALTRUISM; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; KINSHIP; NATURAL SELECTION; RECIPROCITY; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 72649102843     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2009.0116     Document Type: Article

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