Promiscuity and the evolutionary transition to complex societies

Nature

Volumn 466, Issue 7309, 2010, Pages 969-972

  Cornwallis, Charlie K ^a   West, Stuart A ^a   Davis, Katie E ^b   Griffin, Ashleigh S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; COOPERATIVE BREEDING; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; KIN RECOGNITION; PHYLOGENETICS; RELATEDNESS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERATIVE BREEDING; FEMALE; KIN SELECTION; MALE; MONOGAMY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMISCUITY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; SOCIETY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; COOPERATION; EVOLUTION; FATHER; GENETICS; MOTHER; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SIBLING;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION; FATHERS; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTHERS; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SIBLINGS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION;

AVES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77955909557     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09335     Document Type: Article

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