Adopted daughters and adopted daughters-in-law in Taiwan: a mortality analysis

Adoption is sometimes considered paradoxical from an evolutionary perspective because the costs spent supporting an adopted child would be better spent on rearing one's own. Kin selection theory is commonly used to solve this paradox, because the adoption of closely related kin contributes to t...

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Main Authors: Siobhán M. Mattison, Edmond Seabright, Adam Z. Reynolds, Jingzhe (Bill) Cao, Melissa J. Brown, Marcus W. Feldman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Royal Society 2018-01-01
Series:Royal Society Open Science
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Online Access:https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsos.171745