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Live long and prosper: durable benefits of early-life care in banded mongooses
Kin selection theory defines the conditions for which altruism or ‘helping’ can be favoured by natural selection. Tests of this theory in cooperatively breeding animals have focused on the short-term benefits to the recipients of help, such as improved growth or survival to adulthood. However, resea...
Autores principales: | Vitikainen, Emma I. K., Thompson, Faye J., Marshall, Harry H., Cant, Michael A. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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The Royal Society
2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6460079/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30966878 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2018.0114 |
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