The lost dream of ecological determinism: Time to say goodbye? ... Or a white Queen's proposal?

Evolutionary Anthropology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 166-174

  Koenig, Andreas ^a   Borries, Carola ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Dominance hierarchies; Ecology of female social relationships; Evolutionary models; Feeding competition; Resource characteristics

Indexed keywords

EID: 77049120338     PISSN: 10601538     EISSN: 15206505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/evan.20225     Document Type: Article

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