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Andrew Cockburn
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Andrew Cockburn: Ecology and Genetics, Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia. andrew.cockburn@anu.edu.au

Nature, 2010, vol. 466, issue 7309, 930-931

Abstract: Help from earlier offspring in rearing a subsequent brood should evolve more easily when the mother is strictly monogamous. A comparative study of birds provides evidence in support of this view.

Date: 2010
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