Adaptive Secondary Sex Ratio Adjustments via Sex-Specific Infanticide in a Bird
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Heinsohn, Robert; Langmore, Naomi; Cockburn, Andrew; Kokko, Hanna
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Infanticide is easiest to understand when it involves killing the offspring of others [1], but a parent may also kill its own offspring if the sacrifice of currently dependent young leads to higher survival of brood mates [2] or an improvement in the parent's likely future reproduction [3]. However, sex-specific infanticide by parents of their own offspring, although occurring in some human societies [4], is rare across species. Its rarity may be because killing one sex combines wasted parental...[Show more]
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Date published: | 2011 |
Type: | Journal article |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/62789 |
Source: | Current Biology |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.cub.2011.08.064 |
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