Social conflict resolution, life history, and the reconstruction of skew

Reproductive Skew in Vertebrates: Proximate and Ultimate Causes

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 408-507

  Crespi, Bernard J ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511641954.019     Document Type: Chapter

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