The evolutionary origins of friendship

Annual Review of Psychology

Volumn 63, Issue , 2012, Pages 153-177

  Seyfarth, Robert M ^a   Cheney, Dorothy L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal behavior; Evolution; Mammals; Nonhuman primates; Social relationships

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; EMOTION; FEMALE; FRIEND; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ALTRUISM; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EMOTIONS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; FRIENDS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 82955169690     PISSN: 00664308     EISSN: 15452085     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-psych-120710-100337     Document Type: Article

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