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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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2017-06-01
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| Series: | PLoS Biology |
| Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5479502?pdf=render |