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Summary
In cooperative animals, kin selection theory predicts that cooperative breeding should arise among relatives. In their Perspective, Dickinson and Koenig explain that such a prediction has a number of complications, as exemplifed by studies in two species of cooperative breeders: carrion crows and side-blotched lizards ( Baglione et al., Sinervo and Clobert).