Ecology of Social Evolution

Research on the evolution of social behaviour has been dominated by genetic relatedness for a long time; however, both recent empirical studies and theoretical concepts give growing evidence for ecological factors acting as very prominent additional or alternative driving forces in social evolution....

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Korb, Judith (Editor ), Heinze, Juergen (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2008.
Edición:1st ed. 2008.
Temas:
Psychobiology.
Human behavior.
Animal migration.
Biotic communities.
Population biology.
Evolution (Biology).
Zoology.
Sociology.
Behavioral Neuroscience.
Animal Migration.
Community and Population Ecology.
Evolutionary Biology.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Evolution and Ecology of Cooperation - History and Concepts
  • The Ecology of Altruism in a Clonal Insect
  • The Evolutionary Ecology of Eusociality in Australian Gall Thrips: a 'Model Clades' Approach
  • The Ecology and Evolution of Helping in Hover Wasps (Hymenoptera: Stenogastrinae)
  • Why are so Many Bees but so Few Digger Wasps Social? The Effect of Provisioning Mode and Helper Efficiency on the Distribution of Sociality Among the Apoidea
  • Social Plasticity: Ecology, Genetics, and the Structure of Ant Societies
  • The Ecology of Social Evolution in Termites
  • Kin-Recognition Mechanisms in Cooperative Breeding Systems: Ecological Causes and Behavioral Consequences of Variation
  • Social Ecology of Horses
  • African Mole-Rats: Eusociality, Relatedness and Ecological Constraints
  • Genetic and Ecological Determinants of Primate Social Systems
  • The Ecology of Social Life: A Synthesis.

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