It takes grouping and cooperation to get sociality

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 264, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1240-1253

  van Veelen, Matthijs ^a   García, Julián ^a,b   Avilés, Leticia ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Balanced polymorphism; Cooperation; Grouping; Sociality

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK; COEVOLUTION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; GROUP BEHAVIOR; GROUP SIZE; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLYMORPHISM; SIMULATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ARTICLE; COOPERATION; ECOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SIMULATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 77952951644     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2010.02.043     Document Type: Article

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