Helping Communal Breeding in Birds : Ecology and Evolution /

An overview of the extensive and frequently controversial literature on communally breeding birds developed since the early 1960s, when students of evolution began to examine sociality as a product of natural selection. Jerram Brown provides original data from his own theoretical and empirical studi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brown, J. L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]
Edición:Course Book
Colección:Monographs in Behavior and Ecology ; 37
Temas:
SCIENCE / General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Why Study Helping Behavior?
  • 2. The Discovery of Helping Behavior and a Classification of Avian Communal Breeding Systems
  • 3. Climate, Geography, and Taxonomy
  • 4. Elements of Inclusive Fitness Theory for Field Studies
  • 5. Delayed Breeding Sets the Stage for Helping
  • 6. Reduced Dispersal Sets the Stage for Helping
  • 7. Territorial Inheritance as Parental Facilitation
  • 8. Mutualism, Cost-sharing, and Group Size
  • 9. Mutualistic Mating Systems Polyandry and Uncertain Paternity
  • 10. Mutualistic Mating Systems Joint Nesting and Uncertain Maternity
  • 11. Does Helping Really Benefit the Helped?
  • 12. The Genetic Structure of Social Units215
  • 13. Indirect Selection for Helping
  • 14. Direct Fitness, Mutualism, and Reciprocity
  • 15. Parent-Offspring Relationships
  • 16. Infanticide. Dominance, and Destructive Behavior
  • 17. Diet and Group Territoriality
  • 18. Synthesis
  • Appendix
  • Annotated Glossary
  • Author Index
  • Taxonomic Index
  • Subject Index

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