Social Traditions and the Maintenance and Loss of Geographic Variation in Mating Patterns of Brown-Headed Cowbirds
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We thank Meredith J. West and Andrew P. King for their guidance, insight, assistance, and friendship over the course of the two sets of studies described in this review, and beyond. The work simply could not have been done without them. We also wish to thank Jennifer Miller and two anonymous reviewers for helpful comments on earlier drafts of the manuscript, and Robert Lickliter for the invitation to submit our work to this special issue. Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Todd M. Freeberg, Department of Psychology and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, U.S.A. ([email protected]). Social Traditions and the Maintenance and Loss of Geographic Variation in Mating Patterns of Brown-Headed Cowbirds
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