Family living sets the stage for cooperative breeding and ecological resilience in birds.

Cooperative breeding is an extreme form of cooperation that evolved in a range of lineages, including arthropods, fish, birds, and mammals. Although cooperative breeding in birds is widespread and well-studied, the conditions that favored its evolution are still unclear. Based on phylogenetic compar...

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Main Authors: Michael Griesser, Szymon M Drobniak, Shinichi Nakagawa, Carlos A Botero
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-06-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5479502?pdf=render