The veil of ignorance can favour biological cooperation

Biology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Queller, David C ^a   Strassmann, Joan E ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conflict; Cooperation; Meiosis; Nepotism; Relatedness; Veil of ignorance

Indexed keywords

COLOR; CYTOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NEPOTISM; RELATEDNESS; SIGNALING;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONFLICT; COOPERATION; DICTYOSTELIUM; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; KNOWLEDGE; MEIOSIS; NEPOTISM; PHENOTYPE; RELATEDNESS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VEIL OF IGNORANCE;

CONFLICT; COOPERATION; MEIOSIS; NEPOTISM; RELATEDNESS; VEIL OF IGNORANCE;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DICTYOSTELIUM; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; KNOWLEDGE; MEIOSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHENOTYPE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84891935973     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2013.0365     Document Type: Article

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