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Why Do Animals Adopt?
 Taking responsibility for another’s young reveals the deep evolutionary roots of care.
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Editor's Note: Feeding and protecting a juvenile is costly. Evolution is supposed to be about the promulgation of one's genes; why invest time and energy in the survival of another's, potentially at the expense of your own? Yet animal adoption may also illuminate the underpinnings of a sensibility common to humans and other animals.
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