A dynamical model of two-level selection

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 555-588

  Simon, Burton ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Campus Box 170 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution of cooperation; Evolutionary birth death process; Evolutionary dynamics; Group selection; MLS1; MLS2; Multi level selection; Social evolution

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957778862     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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