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Cooperative breeding

Known as: Breeding collective, Collective breeding, Cooperative breeders 
Cooperative breeding is a social system characterized by alloparental care: offspring receive care not only from their parents, but also from… (More)
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2016
2016
C Cooperative Breeding
Cooperative breeding is characterized by a combination of group living and alloparental care, i.e., the care of others’ offspring… (More)
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2009
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2009
Cooperative Breeding and Human Cognitive Evolution
Despite sharing a recent common ancestor, humans are surprisingly different from other great apes. The most obvious… (More)
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2008
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2008
Evolutionary Context of Human Development: the Cooperative Breeding Model
According to the Cooperative Breeding Hypothesis, allomaternal assistance was essential for child survival during the Pleistocene… (More)
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2007
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2007
ntegrating cooperative breeding into theoretical concepts of cooperation
In cooperative breeding systems, some individuals help to raise offspring that are not their own. While early explanations for… (More)
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2005
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2005
Paying to stay or paying to breed? Field evidence for direct benefits of helping behavior in a cooperatively breeding fish
Several hypotheses aim to explain the evolution of helping behavior, but conclusive experimental support for evaluating the… (More)
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2004
2004
Cooperative breeding by the Galápagos mockingbird, Nesomimus parvulus
The costs and benefits of helping behavior were analyzed for 36 pairs of the Galápagos mockingbird, Nesomimus parvulus, and their… (More)
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2001
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2001
Correlates of group size in a cooperatively breeding cichlid fish (Neolamprologus pulcher)
Neolamprologus pulcher, a cooperatively breeding cichlid fish from Lake Tanganyika, lives in permanent social groups comprising… (More)
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2001
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2001
Parentage assignment and extra-group paternity in a cooperative breeder: the Seychelles warbler (Acrocephalus sechellensis).
We describe the development and initial application of a semiautomated parentage testing system in the Seychelles warbler… (More)
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2000
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2000
Ecological constraints, life history traits and the evolution of cooperative breeding.
The ecological constraints hypothesis is widely accepted as an explanation for the evolution of delayed dispersal in… (More)
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1998
Highly Cited
1998
Cooperative breeding in birds: a comparative test of the life history hypothesis
In approximately 3.2% of bird species individuals regularly forgo the opportunity to breed independently and instead breed… (More)
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