Competitive helping increases with the size of biological markets and invades defection

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 281, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 47-55

  Barclay, Pat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biological markets; Competitive altruism; Cooperation; Helping; Partner choice

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; COOPERATION; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHM; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; ORGANISM GROUP SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES INVASION;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SOCIAL MARKETING;

EID: 79955756065     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2011.04.023     Document Type: Article

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