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  • Behavioral ecology
  • Ornithology

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  • Cooperative breeding, where multiple adults raise young, is common in vertebrates but its ecological drivers are debated.
  • Previous hypotheses suggested cooperative breeding thrives in stable/productive or variable/unpredictable environments.

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  • To investigate the ecological and climatic factors associated with the evolution of cooperative breeding in birds.
  • To identify intermediate social systems in the evolutionary pathway to cooperative breeding.

Main Methods:

  • Phylogenetic analysis of social systems in birds.
  • Examination of ecological and climatic correlates of nonsocial, family living, and cooperative breeding systems.

Main Results:

  • Family living is identified as an intermediate step between nonsocial and cooperative breeding.
  • Cooperative breeding is favored initially in highly productive environments where family living is advantageous.
  • Selection for cooperative breeding is secondarily driven by environmental deterioration and increased variability.

Conclusions:

  • The evolution of cooperative breeding is a multi-step process, not solely driven by environmental stability or variability.
  • Understanding intermediate stages like family living is crucial for explaining the emergence of complex social behaviors.
  • This study provides a novel framework for analyzing the evolution of cooperative breeding by integrating phylogenetic and ecological data.