Prosocial behaviour emerges independent of reciprocity in cottontop tamarins

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1701, 2010, Pages 3845-3851

  Cronin, Katherine A ^a,b   Schroeder, Kori K E ^a   Snowdon, Charles T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cooperative breeding; Negative reciprocity; Prosocial behaviour; Punishment; Reciprocal altruism

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; COOPERATIVE BREEDING; EMERGENCE; HUMAN EVOLUTION; PRIMATE; RECIPROCITY; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

PRIMATES;

EID: 78650072662     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.0879     Document Type: Conference Paper

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