Helping Communal Breeding in Birds : : Ecology and Evolution / / J. L. Brown.
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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1987 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Monographs in Behavior and Ecology ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (374 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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