The evolutionary significance of costly punishment is still to be demonstrated

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

Volumn 106, Issue 50, 2009, Pages

  Rankin, Daniel J ^a,b   Dos Santos, Miguel ^a,c   Wedekind, Claus ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOPERATION; COSTLY PUNISHMENT; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GAME; HUMAN; LETTER; MALADJUSTMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNISHMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIOLENCE;

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; GAME THEORY; HUMANS; PUNISHMENT;

EID: 75849118875     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0911990107     Document Type: Letter

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