Kin selection and its critics

BioScience

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 22-32

  Birch, Jonathan ^a   Okasha, Samir ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hamilton's rule; Inclusive fitness; Kin selection; Multilevel selection; Social evolution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923325652     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: 15253244     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biu196     Document Type: Article

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