Ridley, Jo; Yu, Douglas W.; Sutherland, William J. - In: Behavioral Ecology 16 (2005) 2, pp. 358-363
, we propose a novel hypothesis, the reciprocal altruism hypothesis, which is that longevity increases local dominance by … favoring nonaggression pacts among neighboring residents because longevity increases the likelihood of reciprocal altruism …, they will be likely to actually achieve territory inheritance. The reciprocal altruism hypothesis is supported by a wider …