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SUBMITTER: Wu JJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4667691 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wu Jia-Jia JJ Ji Ting T He Qiao-Qiao QQ Du Juan J Mace Ruth R
Nature communications 20151019
There is growing recognition in both evolutionary biology and anthropology that dispersal is key to establishing patterns of cooperation. However, some models predict that cooperation is more likely to evolve in low dispersal (viscous) populations, while others predict that local competition for resources inhibits cooperation. Sex-biased dispersal and extra-pair mating may also have an effect. Using economic games in Sino-Tibetan populations with strikingly different dispersal patterns, we measu ...[more]