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Further Reading
Clutton‐Brock TH (1991) The Evolution of Parental Care. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Royle NJ, Smiseth PT and Kölliker M (2012) The Evolution of Parental Care. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.