What drives cooperative breeding?

Family living sets the stage for cooperative breeding and ecological resilience in birds

(2017) Michael Griesser et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Direct benefits and evolutionary transitions to complex societies

(2017) Cody J. Dey et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Cooperative breeding among Chinese passerines: inference from social behavior, diet, and migratory status

(2016) Dianhua Ke et al.   JOURNAL OF FIELD ORNITHOLOGY

Family living: an overlooked but pivotal social system to understand the evolution of cooperative breeding

(2015) Szymon M. Drobniak et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Kin-selected cooperation without lifetime monogamy: human insights and animal implications

(2014) Karen L. Kramer et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Evolutionary routes to non-kin cooperative breeding in birds

(2013) C. Riehl   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Cooperative breeding and monogamy in mammalian societies

(2012) D. Lukas et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Variable Helper Effects, Ecological Conditions, and the Evolution of Cooperative Breeding in the Acorn Woodpecker

(2011) Walter D. Koenig et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Environmental Uncertainty and the Global Biogeography of Cooperative Breeding in Birds

(2010) Walter Jetz et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Promiscuity and the evolutionary transition to complex societies

(2010) Charlie K. Cornwallis et al.   NATURE

Lifetime monogamy and the evolution of eusociality

(2009) J. J. Boomsma   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES