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Lecturer @CCE_Brunel in @BrunelUni working on all things on reproduction and childrearing 💜
Aug 12, 2019 10 tweets 4 min read
New paper out today which explores four different functional hypotheses about why people help look after someone else's child in the Agta.
nature.com/articles/s4156… We explore the (non-competing) roles of kin selection, reciprocity, learning-to-mother and costly signalling in direct childcare, measured with 1.5 meter proximity