Decreasing parental task specialization promotes conditional cooperation

Abstract How much to invest in parental care and by who remain puzzling questions fomented by a sexual conflict between parents. Negotiation that facilitates coordinated parental behaviour may be key to ease this costly conflict. However, understanding cooperation requires that the temporal and sex-...

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Main Authors: Arne Iserbyt, Nolwenn Fresneau, Tiffanie Kortenhoff, Marcel Eens, Wendt Müller
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017-07-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-06667-1