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Social Behaviour: Genes, Ecology and Evolution

Social Behaviour: Genes, Ecology and Evolution

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Humans live in large and extensive societies and spend much of their time interacting socially. Likewise, most other animals also interact socially. Social behaviour is of constant fascination to biologists and psychologists of many disciplines, from behavioural ecology to comparative biology and sociobiology. The two major approaches used to study social behaviour involve either the mechanism of behaviour - where it has come from and how it has evolved, or the function of the behaviour studied. With guest articles from leaders in the field, theoretical foundations along with recent advances are presented to give a truly multidisciplinary overview of social behaviour, for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. Topics include aggression, communication, group living, sexual behaviour and co-operative breeding. With examples ranging from bacteria to social mammals and humans, a variety of research tools are used, including candidate gene approaches, quantitative genetics, neuro-endocrine studies, cost-benefit and phylogenetic analyses and evolutionary game theory.
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Cambridge University Press
66435
9780521709620
9780521709620

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Publication date
2010
Issue number
1
Cover
paperback
Pages count
576
Dimensions (mm)
190.00 x 205.00
Weight (g)
1220
  • Introduction Tamas Szekely, Allen J. Moore and Jan Komdeur; Part I. Foundations:: 1. Nature-nurture interactions Marla B. Sokolowski and Joel D. Levine; 2. The quantitative genetics of social behaviour Bronwyn H. Bleakley, Jason B. Wolf and Allen J. Moore; 3. Social behaviour and bird-song from a neural and endocrine perspective Elizabeth Adkins-Regan, Timothy J. DeVoogd and Jordan M. Moore; 4. Evolutionary game theory John M. McNamara and Franz J. Weissing; 5. Recent advances in comparative methods Robert P. Freckleton and Mark Pagel; 6. Social evolution theory:: a review of methods and approaches Tom Wenseleers, Andy Gardner and Kevin R. Foster; Part II. Themes:: 7. Aggression:: towards an integration of gene, brain and behaviour Robert Huber and Edward A. Kravitz; 8. Social influences on communication signals:: from honesty to exploitation Mark E. Hauber and Marlene Zuk; 9. Important topics in group living Jens Krause and Graeme Ruxton; 10. Sexual behaviour:: conflict, cooperation and co-evolution Tomasso Pizzari and Russell Bonduriansky; 11. Pair bonds and parental behaviour Lisa McGraw, Tamas Szekely and Larry J. Young; 12. Adaptations and constraints in the evolution of delayed dispersal:: implications for cooperation Jan Komdeur and Jan Ekman; 13. Social behaviour in microorganisms Kevin R. Foster; 14. Social environments, social tactics and their fitness consequences in complex mammalian societies Marion L. East and Heribert Hofer; 15. Social behaviour in humans Ruth Mace; Part III. Implications:: 16. Personality and individual social specialisation Denis Reale and Niels J. Dingemanse; 17. Molecular and genetic influences on the neural substrate of social cognition in humans Louise Gallagher and David Skuse; 18. Population density, social behaviour and sex allocation Suzanne H. Alonzo and Ben C. Sheldon; 19. Social behaviour and speciation Gerald S. Wilkinson and Leanna M. Birge; 20. Social behaviour in conservation Daniel T. Blumstein; 21. Prospects for research in social behaviour:: systems biology meets behaviour Allen J. Moore, Tamas Szekely and Jan Komdeur; Part IV. Profiles:: 22. Undiminished passion Tim Birkhead; 23. Social evolution, sexual intrigue and serendipity Andrew Cockburn; 24. Mating systems:: integrating sexual conflict and ecology Nicholas B. Davies; 25. In love with Ropalidia marginata - for 34 years, and still going strong Raghavendra Gadagkar; 26. The Huddlers Dilemma:: a cold shoulder or a warm inner glow David Haig; 27. Multi-component signals in ant communication Bert Hölldobler; 28. Whats wrong with this picture? Sarah B. Hrdy; 29. From behavioural observations, to genes, to evolution Laurent Keller; 30. Reputation can make the world go round - or why we are sometimes social Manfred Milinski; 31. A haphazard career Ronald Noë; 32. In celebration of questions, past, present and future Geoff A. Parker; 33. Mating systems and genetic variation Marion Petrie; 34. Selections from a life in social selection David C. Queller; 35. The de novo evolution of cooperation:: an unlikely event Paul B. Rainey; 36. Evolutionary genetics and social behaviour Mike Ritchie; 37. Genes and social behaviour:: from gene to genome to 1000 animal genomes Gene E. Robinson; 38. Behavioural ecology, why do I love thee? Let me count the ways Paul W. Sherman; 39. Anonymous (and other) social experience and the evolution of cooperation by reciprocity Michael Taborsky; 40. Social theory based on natural selection Robert Trivers; 41. Look to the ants Edward O. Wilson; 42. The handicap principle and social behaviour Amotz Zahavi .
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