Cryptic kin selection: Kin structure in vertebrate populations and opportunities for kin-directed cooperation

Ethology

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 203-216

  Hatchwell, Ben J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROOD PARASITISM; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; CRYPSIS; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; FITNESS; KIN SELECTION; POPULATION ECOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE COST; TERRITORIALITY; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77949877687     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2009.01732.x     Document Type: Review

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