Periodic Reporting for period 1 - Helping in Cyanopica (Why helping others? The role of direct fitness benefits within the social-networks in cooperatively breeding azure-winged magpies)

"Cooperation is widespread in nature, including our own species, but in many cases it poses an evolutionary paradox with natural selection favouring own success in competition with alternative genetic forms. One main classic explanation is kin selection, i.e. the success of...