Multilevel and kin selection in a connected world

Nature

Volumn 463, Issue 7283, 2010, Pages

  Wade, Michael J ^a   Wilson, David S ^b   Goodnight, Charles ^c   Taylor, Doug ^d   Bar Yam, Yaneer ^e   De Aguiar, Marcus A M ^e   Stacey, Blake ^e   Werfel, Justin ^e   Hoelzer, Guy A ^f   Brodie Iii, Edmund D ^d   Fields, Peter ^d   Breden, Felix ^g   Linksvayer, Timothy A ^h   Fletcher, Jeffrey A ⁱ   Richerson, Peter J ^j   Bever, James D ^a   Van Dyken, J David ^a   Zee, Peter ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^e NEW ENGLAND COMPLEX SYSTEMS INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^g SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

ⁱ PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FITNESS; GENETIC PARAMETERS; KIN SELECTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NATURAL SELECTION; NOTE; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; GENETIC FITNESS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PARASITES; SELECTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE;

EID: 77249125400     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08809     Document Type: Note

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