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Nepotism and the Evolution of Alarm Calls: Alarm calls of Belding's ground squirrels warn relatives, and thus are expressions of nepotism.
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- Authors
- Sherman, P. W.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 1977-09-23
- Volume
- 197
- Issue
- 4310
- Pages
- 1246-1253
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2070345953
- Cited by
- 904
- References
- 6
- FWCI
- 19.52
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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