Pair bonds and parental behaviour

Social Behaviour: Genes, Ecology and Evolution

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 271-301

  McGraw, Lisa ^a   Székely, Tamás ^b   Young, Larry J ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511781360.023     Document Type: Chapter

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