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Cooperative Breeding

Cooperative Breeding is a social system in which non-parental individuals assist in the rearing of offspring that are not their own, typically within a stable group structure, thereby enhancing the reproductive success of the primary breeding pair.

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Cooperative Breeding Systems

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Publications

589

The Evolution of Helping. I. An Ecological Constraints Model

Stephen T. Emlen · The American Naturalist · 1982 · 928 citations

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Prevalence of different modes of parental care in birds

Andrew Cockburn · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2006 · 848 citations · Full text

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EVOLUTION OF HELPING BEHAVIOR IN COOPERATIVELY BREEDING BIRDS

Andrew Cockburn · Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics · 1998 · 814 citations

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Eusociality in a Mammal: Cooperative Breeding in Naked Mole-Rat Colonies

J. U. M. Jarvis · Science · 1981 · 698 citations

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The evolution of cooperative breeding through group augmentation

Hanna Kokko, Rufus A. Johnstone, Tim Clutton‐Brock · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2001 · 580 citations · Full text

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  1. BJ
    Ben J. Hatchwell

    University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

    21 publications · 2K citations

    19

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  2. TC
    Tim Clutton‐Brock

    University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

    19 publications · 2.7K citations

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  3. MT
    Michael Taborsky

    University of Bern, Switzerland

    17 publications · 1.1K citations

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  4. DH
    Dik Heg

    University of Bern, Switzerland

    16 publications · 1.1K citations

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  5. AC
    Andrew Cockburn

    Australian National University, Australia

    16 publications · 2.7K citations

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Institutions

477

  1. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    33 h-index

    81 publications

    10.9K citations

  2. University of Sheffield

    Sheffield, United Kingdom

    27 h-index

    77 publications

    7.1K citations

  3. Australian National University

    Canberra, Australia

    26 h-index

    69 publications

    7.3K citations

  4. University of Bern

    Bern, Switzerland

    23 h-index

    85 publications

    5.5K citations

  5. Cornell University

    Ithaca, United States

    20 h-index

    43 publications

    4.5K citations

  6. University of Groningen

    Groningen, The Netherlands

    18 h-index

    35 publications

    3.5K citations

  7. University of Cape Town

    Rondebosch, South Africa

    18 h-index

    43 publications

    2.8K citations

  8. University of Pretoria

    Pretoria, South Africa

    17 h-index

    43 publications

    6.1K citations

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  2. Animal Behaviour

    46 publications · 3.2K citations

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  3. Behavioral Ecology

    42 publications · 3.4K citations

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  4. The American Naturalist

    AN · 35 publications · 4.2K citations

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  5. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

    35 publications · 2.3K citations

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