Fundamental problems with the cooperative breeding hypothesis. A reply to Burkart & van Schaik

The cooperative breeding hypothesis (CBH) states that cooperative breeding, a social system in which group members help to rear offspring that are not their own, has important socio‐cognitive consequences. Thornton & McAuliffe (2015; henceforth T&M) critiqued this idea on both conceptual and...

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Main Authors: Thornton, A., McAuliffe, K., Dall, S. R. X., Fernandez‐Duque, E., Garber, P. A., Young, A. J.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4982024/