Natural Selection and Social Behavior: Recent Research and New Theory |
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Contents
Part One EUSOCIALITY IN INSECTS | 3 |
Individual Strategies of InclusiveFitnessMaximizing in Polistes 1 1 | 18 |
Kin Selection and Satellite Nests in Polistes exclamans | 45 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Natural Selection and Social Behavior: Recent Research and New Theory |
| Editors | Richard D. Alexander, Donald W. Tinkle |
| Contributors | National Science Foundation (U.S.), University of Michigan. Museum of Zoology |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Chiron Press, 1981 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | Aug 14, 2009 |
| ISBN | 091346208X, 9780913462089 |
| Length | 532 pages |
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