Intergenerational and Sibling Conflict Under Patrilocality: A Model of Reproductive Skew Applied to Human Kinship

Human Nature

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 66-79

  Ji, Ting ^a   Xu, Jing Jing ^b   Mace, Ruth ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS); Kinship; Marriage; Monogamy; Polygyny; Reproductive conflict; Reproductive skew

Indexed keywords

CONFLICT; FAMILY CONFLICT; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MARRIAGE; REPRODUCTION; SIBLING RELATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); FAMILY CONFLICT; HUMANS; INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MARRIAGE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REPRODUCTION; SIBLING RELATIONS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84897631392     PISSN: 10456767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12110-013-9188-6     Document Type: Article

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