Demography and social evolution of banded mongooses

Advances in the Study of Behavior

Volumn 45, Issue , 2013, Pages 407-445

  Cant, Michael A ^a   Vitikainen, Emma ^a   Nichols, Hazel J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Cooperative breeding; Helping; Infanticide; Kin selection; Reproductive conflict; Structured populations; Viscosity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878200432     PISSN: 00653454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-407186-5.00006-9     Document Type: Chapter

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