Of lion manes and human beards: Some unusual effects of the interaction between aggression and sociality

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue JAN, 2010, Pages

  Blanchard, D Caroline ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Beard; Evolution; Infanticide; Lion; Mane; Social systems; Target sites

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859486451     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.08.045.2009     Document Type: Article

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