Parenting is a complex subject. Parents may abandon their young completely, especially when the other parent still cares. But sometimes not. Or sometimes they may even kill their own young. How to understand such diversity?

Kokko, H., Griffith, S.C. & Pryke, S.R. 2014. The hawk-dove game in a sexually reproducing species explains a colourful polymorphism in an endangered bird. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 281:20141794.

Kahn, A.T., Schwanz, L. & Kokko, H. 2013. Paternity protection can provide a kick-start for the evolution of male-only parental care. Evolution 67:2207-2217.

Kokko, H. & Jennions, M.D. 2012. Sex differences in parental care. Pages 101-116 in: The Evolution of Parental Care (N. Royle, P.T. Smiseth and M. Kölliker, eds.) Oxford University press.

Lehtonen, J. & Kokko, H. 2012. Positive feedback and alternative stable states in inbreeding, cooperation, sex roles and other evolutionary processes. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 367:211-221.

Heinsohn, R., Langmore, N.E., Cockburn, A. & Kokko, H. 2011. Adaptive secondary sex ratio adjustments via sex-specific infanticide in a bird. Current Biology 21:1744-1747.

Jaatinen, K., Lehtonen, J. & Kokko, H. 2011. Strategy selection under conspecific brood parasitism: an integrative modelling approach. Behavioral Ecology 22:144-155.

Fischer, B., Taborsky, B. & Kokko, H. 2011. How to balance the offspring quality-quantity trade-off when environmental cues are unreliable. Oikos 120:258-270.

Kokko, H. & Jennions, M.D. 2010. Ways to raise tadpoles. Nature 464:990-991 (News & Views).

Ratikainen, I.I. & Kokko, H. 2010. Differential allocation and compensation: Who deserves the silver spoon? Behavioral Ecology 21:195-200.

Starrfelt, J. & Kokko, H. 2010. Parent offspring conflict and the evolution of dispersal distance. American Naturalist 175:38-49.

Kokko, H. & Jennions, M.D. 2008. Parental investment, sexual selection and sex ratios. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 21:919-948.

Kokko, H. & Jennions, M. 2003a. It takes two to tango. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 18:103-104.

Kokko, H. & Jennions, M. 2003b. Response to McDowall: in defence of the caring male. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 18:611-612.

Kokko, H. & Johnstone, R. A. 2002. Why is mutual mate choice not the norm? Operational sex ratios, sex roles, and the evolution of sexually dimorphic and monomorphic signalling. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 357:319-330.

López-Sepulcre, A. & Kokko, H. 2002. The role of kin recognition in the evolution of conspecific brood parasitism. Animal Behaviour 64:215-222.

Kokko, H. & McRae, S. B. 2000. Take care when studying parenting behaviour. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 15:440-441.

Kokko, H. 1999. Cuckoldry and the stability of biparental care. Ecology Letters 2:247-255.

Kokko, H. 1998. Should advertising parental care be honest? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 265:1871-1878.