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A Strategic Arms Race Among Birds

10,000 Birds

A recent paper in Science, Brood Parasitism and the Evolution of Cooperative Breeding in Birds by Feeney, Medina, Somveille, et al, looks into this interesting possible relationship. This was the idea originally proposed to explain unbelievably huge sexual swellings in primates, to let males know who the females are. Feeney, W.

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