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12 - Seychelles warblers: Complexities of the helping paradox

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2015

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Jan Komdeur ,
Terry Burke ,
Hannah Dugdale  and
David S. Richardson
Edited by
Walter D. Koenig  and
Janis L. Dickinson
Walter D. Koenig
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
Janis L. Dickinson
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
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Cooperative Breeding in Vertebrates
Studies of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior
 , pp. 197 - 216
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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