Teamwork, pleasure and bargaining in animal social behaviour

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1454-1462

  Roughgarden, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Bargaining; Evolution of co operation; Game theory; Natural selection; Parental investment; Pleasure; Sexual selection and conflicts; Teamwork; Theory; Threat

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; COOPERATION; EDITORIAL; EVOLUTION; GROOMING; PLEASURE; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; GENETIC FITNESS; GROOMING; PLEASURE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84862241349     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2012.02505.x     Document Type: Editorial

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