Assets and tactics in a mating market: Economic models of negotiation offer insights into animal courtship dynamics on the lek

Current Zoology

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 225-236

  Patricelli, Gail L ^a   Krakauer, Alan H ^a   McElreath, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bargaining; Game theory; Lek; Negotiation; Sexual selection; Signaling

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 79953267338     PISSN: 16745507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/czoolo/57.2.225     Document Type: Review

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