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11 - Sociality in Birds

from Part II - Vertebrates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2017

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Andrew Cockburn ,
Ben J. Hatchwell  and
Walter D. Koenig
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Dustin R. Rubenstein  and
Patrick Abbot
Dustin R. Rubenstein
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Columbia University, New York
Patrick Abbot
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Vanderbilt University, Tennessee
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Comparative Social Evolution , pp. 320 - 353
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