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The lingering effects of parental care and its role in evolutionary change

For centuries, European culture has been enriched by depictions in art and literature of the diverse ways in which parents can exert a long-lasting influence on their children. We now know that animal parents can have similarly lingering effects on their offspring and a relatively... click to read more

Rebecca Kilner | Professor at Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, UK

behaviour

evolution

burying beetle

parenthood

Nicrophorus vespilloides

Reading time 4 min

published on Jan 27, 2016

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