Ancestral hierarchy and conflict

Science

Volumn 336, Issue 6083, 2012, Pages 844-847

  Boehm, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DOMINANCE; HOMINID; HUNTER-GATHERER; MATING BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CONFLICT;

ANCESTRAL PAN; BEHAVIOR; CHIMPANZEE; EVOLUTION; PLEISTOCENE; PLESIOMORPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; WAR;

PAN; PAN PANISCUS;

EID: 84861216827     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1219961     Document Type: Review

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