Cooperation among Animals : an Evolutionary Perspective.

Cooperation among Animals : an Evolutionary Perspective.

1. Historical perspectives on cooperative behavior2. Theoretical perspectives on the evolution of cooperation3. Cooperation in fishes4. Cooperation in birds5. Cooperation in mammals I: Nonprimates6. Cooperation in mammals II: Nonhuman primates7. Cooperation in insects8. To the future.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dugatkin, Lee Alan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cary : Oxford University Press, 1997.
Series:Oxford series in ecology and evolution.
Subjects:
Animal behavior.
Cooperativeness.
Animal behavior
Cooperativeness
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 Historical Perspectives on Cooperative Behavior; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Early philosophical ponderings on cooperation; 1.3 Early evolutionary biology and the study of cooperation; 1.4 Experimental work on cooperation: Warder Clyde Allee and the ""The Chicago School"" of animal behavior; 1.5 ""Modern"" approaches to the study of cooperative behavior; 1.6 Onward and upward; 2 Theoretical Perspectives on the Evolution of Cooperation; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Inclusive fitness; 2.3 Within- and between-group selection; 2.4 Reciprocity and the prisoner's dilemma; 2.5 Byproduct mutualism.
  • 2.6 The cooperator's dilemma game2.7 Onward and upward; 3 Cooperation in Fishes; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Egg trading and reciprocity in simultaneously hermaphroditic fishes; 3.3 Helpers-at-the-nest; 3.4 Nest raiding in three-spined sticklebacks; 3.5 Intraspecific cleaning; 3.6 Cooperative foraging; 3.7 Shreckstoff; 3.8 Mobbing behavior; 3.9 Predator inspection; 3.10 Summary; 4 Cooperation in Birds; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Territoriality and cooperation; 4.3 Cooperative hunting; 4.4 Food calls, information, and food sharing; 4.5 Alarm calls; 4.6 Mobbing behavior; 4.7 Summary.
  • 5 Cooperation in Mammals I: Nonprimates5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Grooming behavior; 5.3 Stotting, tail flagging, alarm signals, and vigilance; 5.4 Coalitions; 5.5 Alloparenting and helping behavior; 5.6 Cooperative hunting; 5.7 Bloodsharing and reciprocal altruism in bats; 5.8 Care-giving behavior in dolphins; 5.9 Summary; 6 Cooperation in Mammals II: Nonhuman primates; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Grooming behavior; 6.3 Nongrooming-based coalitions; 6.4 Cooperative hunting; 6.5 Intergroup conflicts and cooperation; 6.6 Scanning, alarm calls, and other anti-predator behaviors.
  • 6.7 Alloparenting and helping6.8 Summary; 7 Cooperation in Insects; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 The evolution of eusociality; 7.3 Worker ""policing"" in honeybees; 7.4 Honeybee colonies as superorganisms: foraging, anti-predator behavior, and hive thermoregulation; 7.5 ""Social contracts"" in paper wasps; 7.6 Colony founding; 7.7 Summary; 8 To the Future; 8.1 A key to categories of cooperation; 8.2 Quantifying the payoff matrix; 8.3 Correlates of cooperation; 8.4 Does the skew towards reciprocity in the theoretical literature reflect nature?; 8.5 Spatial games and the evolution of cooperation.
  • 8.6 The bright side and the dark sideReferences; Author Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; Species Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; X; Y; General Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; W.

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