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Intergenerational transfers and the cost of allomothering in traditional societies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 April 2010
Abstract
The question of why helpers help is debated in the cooperative breeding literature. Recent reevaluations of inclusive fitness theory have important implications for traditional populations in which the provisioning of young occurs in the context of intergenerational transfers. These transfers link older and younger generations in an economic relationship that both minimizes the demand for help and the cost of helping.
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