Cooperative Breeding
Diversity
Consequences
Why not disperse?
Habitat saturation
Mate or nest limitation
Why provide help?
Is the benefit of helping independent of territory quality?
Helpers are usually related
Bee-eaters help closest relatives
Helping increases inclusive fitness in pied kingfishers
Conflicts over reproduction
Reproductive skew theory
Reproductive skew predictions
Reproductive skew evidence: paper wasps
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