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SUBMITTER: Remes V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4640770 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20151019 44
Parental care is one of the most variable social behaviors and it is an excellent model system to understand cooperation between unrelated individuals. Three major hypotheses have been proposed to explain the extent of parental cooperation: sexual selection, social environment, and environmental harshness. Using the most comprehensive dataset on parental care that includes 659 bird species from 113 families covering both uniparental and biparental taxa, we show that the degree of parental cooper ...[more]