Why inclusive fitness can make it adaptive to produce less fit extra-pair offspring

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Lehtonen, Jussi
Kokko, Hanna

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Royal Society of London

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Social monogamy predominates in avian breeding systems, but most socially monogamous species engage in promiscuous extra-pair copulations (EPCs). The reasons behind this remain debated, and recent empirical work has uncovered patterns that do not seem to

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences

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2037-12-31