Local Interaction, Multilevel Selection, and Evolutionary Transitions

Biological Theory

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 372-380

  Godfrey Smith, Peter ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

altruism; complexity; evolutionary transitions; kin selection; multilevel selection; reaction norm

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873522391     PISSN: 15555542     EISSN: 15555550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/biot.2006.1.4.372     Document Type: Article

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