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Monogamy and high relatedness do not preferentially favor the evolution of cooperation

BACKGROUND: Phylogenetic analyses strongly associate nonsocial ancestors of cooperatively-breeding or eusocial species with monogamy. Because monogamy creates high-relatedness family groups, kin selection has been concluded to drive the evolution of cooperative breeding (i.e., the monogamy hypothesi...

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Autor principal: Nonacs, Peter
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3058046/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21375755
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-11-58