New details of the social and sex lives of platypodine ambrosia beetles support a controversial link between parental monogamy and complex animal societies.
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Davies, N.G. Family matters. Nat Ecol Evol 2, 927–928 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0541-3
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