Empathy allows individuals to share the affective states of others, predict others' actions, and
stimulate prosocial behavior. Whilst the proximate mechanisms of empathy, modulated in …

Crocodilians and birds are the modern representatives of Phylum Archosauria. Although
there have been recent advances in our understanding of the phylogeny and ecology of …

In recent years, avian systematics has been characterized by a diminished reliance on
morphological cladistics of modern taxa, intensive palaeornithogical research stimulated by …

Publisher's description: Why do males of some species live with a single mate when they are
capable of fertilizing more than one female's eggs? Why do some females pair only with one …

We provide the first review of phylogenetic transitions in parental care and live bearing for a
wide variety of vertebrates. This includes new analyses of both numbers of transitions and …

Understanding parental care behaviour has remained a core research area in evolutionary
behavioural ecology. Why the interest with parental behaviour? Many human cultures have …

Covering diverse species from garter snakes to Komodo dragons, this book delves into the
evolutionary origins and fascinating details of the mysterious social lives of reptiles. Reptiles …

Als junger Doktorand im ausgehenden letzten Jahrhundert war das Leben noch
übersichtlich. In der Bibliothek meiner Universität wurden jeden Dienstag die neusten …

The repeated discovery of adult dinosaurs in close association with egg clutches leads to
speculation over the type and extent of care exhibited by these extinct animals for their eggs …

Patterns of parental care are strikingly diverse in nature, and parental care is thought to have
evolved repeatedly multiple times. Surprisingly, relatively little is known about the most …