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Punish the thief—coevolution of defense and cautiousness stabilizes ownership

ABSTRACT: Ownership of non-controllable resources usually has to be maintained by costly defense against competitors. Whether defense and thus ownership pays in terms of fitness depends on its effectiveness in preventing theft. We show that if the owners’ willingness to defend varies in the populati...

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Autores principales: Hinsch, Martin, Komdeur, Jan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5486837/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28706342
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00265-017-2330-4