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Animal adoption / directed by Jacqueline Farmer.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Animals like us
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Familial behavior in animals.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (52 min.)
- Place of Publication:
- Marseille, France : Saint Thomas Productions, 2004.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Original language in English.
- Summary:
- Altruism, an act that bestows a benefit on the recipient while conferring a cost to the actor, is one of the central paradoxes of evolution. In the wild, where only the fittest survive, adopting other animals' offspring is not really in line with Darwin's theory of evolution. And yet, amongst bees, dolphins, lions and several primate species, altruism may go as far as adoption. In the case of social insects, parent substitution was a flaw in Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection: the biologist noticed that non-reproductive insects who adopted and helped young ones, brought a large portion of genetic baggage from their parents.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed July 1, 2014).
- OCLC:
- 885256019
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