Evolutionary pressures on primate intertemporal choice

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 281, Issue 1786, 2014, Pages

  Stevens, Jeffrey R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Allometry; Brain size; Decision making; Intertemporal choice; Primates; Social group size

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; BODY MASS; BRAIN; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FITNESS; GROUP SIZE; PHYLOGENETICS; PRIMATE; RANGE SIZE;

EID: 84900535844     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.0499     Document Type: Article

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