Reply to Rankin et al.: The efficiency ratio of costly punishment

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 50, 2009, Pages

  Tao, Yi ^a   Li, Cong ^a   Wu, Jia Jia ^a   Cressman, Ross ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHINESE; COOPERATION; COSTLY PUNISHMENT; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; EVOLUTION; GAME; HUMAN; LETTER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; PUNISHMENT; SOCIETY;

EID: 75849118874     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0912928107     Document Type: Letter

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