Family feuds: Social competition and sexual conflict in complex societies

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1600, 2012, Pages 2304-2313

  Rubenstein, Dustin R ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Kin selection; Mating conflict; Reproductive conflict; Sexual conflict; Sexual selection; Social selection

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); INTRASEXUAL INTERACTION; KIN SELECTION; MATING BEHAVIOR; NATURAL SELECTION; SEXUAL CONFLICT; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84863822607     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0283     Document Type: Review

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