Life span evolution in eusocial workers--a theoretical approach to understanding the effects of extrinsic mortality in a hierarchical system.

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Published in PLoS One on April 15, 2013

Authors

Boris H Kramer1, Ralf Schaible

Author Affiliations

1: Laboratory of Evolutionary Biodemography, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, Germany. kramer@demogr.mpg.de

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