Disease dynamics and costly punishment can foster socially imposed monogamy

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Bauch, Chris T ^a   McElreath, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERTILITY; FITNESS; GROUP SIZE; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; MONOGAMY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLYGYNY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOCIAL IMPACT;

ARTICLE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FITNESS; HUMAN; MALE; POLYGYNY; PUNISHMENT; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SIMULATION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL MONOGAMY; SOCIAL NORM; ADULT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ETHICS; HISTORY; MARRIAGE; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HUMANS; MALE; MARRIAGE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PUNISHMENT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SOCIAL NORMS;

EID: 84964033784     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11219     Document Type: Article

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