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Mechanisms of social evolution: linking adaptative function with proximate mechanisms

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    David R. Tarpy

  2. Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC, 28262, USA

    Stanley S. Schneider

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Tarpy, D.R., Schneider, S.S. Mechanisms of social evolution: linking adaptative function with proximate mechanisms. Apidologie 45, 285–288 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13592-014-0282-5

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