Resource transfers and evolution: Helpful offspring and sex allocation

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 64-81

  Stubblefield, J William ^a   Orzack, Steven Hecht ^a  

^a Fresh Pond Research Institute Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Demography; Intergenerational transfers; Offspring helping; Optimality; Sex allocation

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; COOPERATIVE BREEDING; DEMOGRAPHY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FITNESS; HELPING BEHAVIOR; META-ANALYSIS; OPTIMUM FORAGING THEORY; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; PATCHINESS; REPRODUCTIVE COST; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SEX ALLOCATION; SEX RATIO; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; MALE; SEX RATIO; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SEX RATIO;

EID: 84873433873     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2012.09.004     Document Type: Article

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