The enforcement of cooperation by policing

Evolution

Volumn 64, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2139-2152

  El Mouden, Claire ^a   West, Stuart A ^a   Gardner, Andy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Island model; Kin selection; Repression of competition; Scale of competition; Tragedy of the commons

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOPERATION; DEMOGRAPHY; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; HUMAN; SOCIAL CONTROL;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DEMOGRAPHY; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SELECTION, GENETIC; SOCIAL CONTROL, FORMAL;

EID: 78349281179     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2010.00963.x     Document Type: Article

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