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Science 9 November 2007:
Vol. 318. no. 5852, p. 919
DOI: 10.1126/science.1150194
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EVOLUTION AND BEHAVIOR:
Simple Maths for a Perplexing World

Daniel J. Rankin

Mathematical Models of Social Evolution
A Guide for the Perplexed
by Richard McElreath and Robert Boyd
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2007. 428 pp. $62.50, £39.50. ISBN 9780226558264. Paper, $25, £16. ISBN 9780226558271.
Weaving together mathematics and evolutionary theory, the authors offer a primer on behavioral modeling.
The reviewer is at the Department of Behavioural Ecology, Institute of Zoology, University of Bern, Wohlenstrasse 50a, CH-3032 Hinterkappelen, Switzerland. E-mail: daniel.rankin{at}esh.unibe.ch

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