A solution to the collective action problem in between-group conflict with within-group inequality

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Gavrilets, Sergey ^a   Fortunato, Laura ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLECTIVE ACTION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; NEIGHBORHOOD; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; TERRITORY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ARTICLE; CONFLICT; DRIVE; FITNESS; GROUP DYNAMICS; HUMAN; LEADERSHIP; NONHUMAN; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PROGENY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; SOCIETY; THEORETICAL MODEL; ALTRUISM; ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; MOTIVATION; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ALTRUISM; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DISSENT AND DISPUTES; HUMANS; INSTINCT; LEADERSHIP; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTIVATION; REPRODUCTION; SELECTION, GENETIC; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84897082666     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4526     Document Type: Article

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