Competition for Cooperation: Variability, benefits and heritability of relational wealth in hunter-gatherers

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Chaudhary, Nikhil ^a   Salali, Gul Deniz ^a   Thompson, James ^a   Rey, Aude ^a   Gerbault, Pascale ^a   Stevenson, Edward Geoffrey Jedediah ^a   Dyble, Mark ^a   Page, Abigail E ^a   Smith, Daniel ^a   Mace, Ruth ^a   Vinicius, Lucio ^a   Migliano, Andrea Bamberg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; COMPETITION; FEMALE FERTILITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGY; ADULT; COOPERATION; FEMALE; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION GROUP; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION GROUPS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84978388540     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep29120     Document Type: Article

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