{"id":779,"date":"2014-03-30T19:30:32","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T00:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=779"},"modified":"2014-04-03T12:06:45","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T17:06:45","slug":"the-evolution-of-cooperative-parenting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/the-evolution-of-cooperative-parenting\/","title":{"rendered":"The evolution of cooperative parenting<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_782\" style=\"width: 304px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/294px-Florida_Scrub_Jay.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-782\" class=\"size-full wp-image-782\" alt=\"The Florida Scrub Jay (Credit: Mwanner, Wikimedia Commons)\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/294px-Florida_Scrub_Jay.jpg\" width=\"294\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-782\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Florida Scrub Jay (Credit: Mwanner, <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Florida_Scrub_Jay.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Birds like Florida Scrub Jays and humans have something in common; they both make investments in raising children that aren\u2019t there own, which at first seems to counter \u201csurvival of the fittest.\u201d A new mathematical model shows that the benefits of helping outweigh the risks for species that are highly competitive for territory; helping your family maintain a prime patch of land is a great way to ensure that your genes are passed on.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org\/content\/369\/1642\/20130361.full?sid=ce5da647-fa78-4421-b013-8173453aba98\" target=\"_blank\">Original research paper<\/a><\/span>\u00a0published in the\u00a0journal\u00a0<em>Philosophical transaction of the Royal Society B<\/em>\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>March 30, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Names and affiliations of selected<\/strong><strong>\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apmaths.uwo.ca\/~gwild\/\" target=\"_blank\">Geoff Wild<\/a>, Western University<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birds like Florida Scrub Jays and humans have something in common; they both make investments in raising children that aren\u2019t there own, which at first seems to counter \u201csurvival of the fittest.\u201d A new mathematical model shows that the benefits of helping outweigh the risks for species that are highly competitive for territory; helping your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":782,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[39,917],"class_list":["post-779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-animal-behaviour","tag-evolution"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/294px-Florida_Scrub_Jay.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-cz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":787,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions\/787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}