An overview of the extensive and frequently controversial literature on
communally breeding birds developed since the early 1960s, when students
of evolution began to examine sociality as a product of natural
selection. Jerram Brown provides original data from his own theoretical
and empirical studies and summarizes the wide array of results and
interpretations made by others.
Originally published in 1987.
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