Incentives in the family II: Behavioral dynamics and the evolution of non-costly signaling

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 294, Issue , 2012, Pages 9-18

  Akçay, Erol ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolutionary game theory; Honest signaling; Mechanism design; Parent offspring conflict; Private information

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; GAME THEORY; HONEST SIGNALING; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; THRESHOLD;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CLONAL VARIATION; DECISION MAKING; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FAMILY THEORY; HUMAN; PARENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PSYCHOLOGICAL BALANCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COMMUNICATION; GAME THEORY; MODELS, GENETIC; MOTIVATION; PARENTING; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 80755169286     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2011.10.031     Document Type: Article

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