Why promiscuity pays

Lawrence Bellamy () and Andrew Pomiankowski ()
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Lawrence Bellamy: Evolution and Environment, Darwin Building, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
Andrew Pomiankowski: Evolution and Environment, and also at the Centre for Mathematics and Physics in the Life Sciences and Experimental Biology, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK.

Nature, 2011, vol. 479, issue 7372, 184-185

Abstract: A study reveals that female promiscuity in a songbird, the dark-eyed junco, is explained by the greater reproductive success of offspring sired by males outside social pairs compared with offspring born within pairs.

Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1038/479184a

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