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Reproductive constraints, direct fitness and indirect fitness benefits explain helping behaviour in the primitively eusocial wasp, Polistes canadensis

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Maternal weight, offspring competitive ability, and the evolution of communal breeding

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Current brood size and residual reproductive value predict offspring desertion in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides

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How is sexual conflict over parental care resolved? A meta-analysis

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Helpers but not breeders adjust provisioning effort to year-round territory resource availability in carrion crows

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Receiver identity modifies begging intensity independent of need in banded mongoose (Mungos mungo) pups

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Variation in contributions to teaching by meerkats

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