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Direct benefits explain interspecific variation in helping behaviour among cooperatively breeding birds

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Published in 2017 at "Nature Communications"

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-01299-5

Abstract: Kin selection theory provides one important explanation for seemingly altruistic helping behaviour by non-breeding subordinates in cooperative breeding animals. However, it cannot explain why helpers in many species provide energetically costly care to unrelated offspring.… read more here.

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