Kin Selection and Social Insects
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- 1 March 1998
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in BioScience
- Vol. 48 (3), 165-175
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1313262
Abstract
David C. Queller, Joan E. Strassmann; Kin Selection and Social InsectsSocial insects provide the most surprising predictions and satisfying tests of kin selectThis publication has 50 references indexed in Scilit:
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