Reproductive Skew in Vertebrates - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reproductive Skew in Vertebrates write by Reinmar Hager. This book was released on 2009-08-20. Reproductive Skew in Vertebrates available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Skew theory investigates the genetic and ecological factors causal to the partitioning of reproduction in animal groups and may yield fundamental insights into the evolution of animal sociality. This book brings together new theory and empirical work, mostly in vertebrates, to test assumptions and predictions of skew models.
Reproductive Skew in Vertebrates
Reproductive Skew in Vertebrates - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reproductive Skew in Vertebrates write by Reinmar Hager. This book was released on 2009. Reproductive Skew in Vertebrates available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reproductive skew is the study of how reproduction is partitioned in animal societies. In many social animals reproduction is shared unequally and leads to a reproductive skew among group members. Skew theory investigates the genetic and ecological factors causal to the partitioning of reproduction in animal groups and may yield fundamental insights into the evolution of animal sociality. This book brings together new theory and empirical work, mostly in vertebrates, to test assumptions and predictions of skew models. It also gives an updated critical review of skew theory. The team of leading contributors cover a wide range of species, from insects to humans, and discuss both ultimate (evolutionary) and proximate (immediate) factors influencing reproductive skew. Academic researchers and graduate students alike with an interest in evolution and sociality will find this material stimulating and exciting.
Cooperative Breeding in Vertebrates
Cooperative Breeding in Vertebrates - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cooperative Breeding in Vertebrates write by Walter D. Koenig. This book was released on 2016-01-07. Cooperative Breeding in Vertebrates available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Brings together long-term studies of cooperation in vertebrates that challenge our understanding of the evolution of social behavior.
Ecology and Evolution of Cooperative Breeding in Birds
Ecology and Evolution of Cooperative Breeding in Birds - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ecology and Evolution of Cooperative Breeding in Birds write by Walter D. Koenig. This book was released on 2004-04-22. Ecology and Evolution of Cooperative Breeding in Birds available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cooperative breeders are species in which more than a pair of individuals assist in the production of young. Cooperative breeding is found in only a few hundred bird species world-wide, and understanding this often strikingly altruistic behaviour has remained an important challenge in behavioural ecology for over 30 years. This book highlights the theoretical, empirical and technical advances that have taken place in the field of cooperative breeding research since the publication of the seminal work Cooperative Breeding in Birds: Long-term Studies of Behavior and Ecology (1990, HB ISBN 0521 372984, PB ISBN 0521 378907). Organized conceptually, special attention is given to ways in which cooperative breeders have proved fertile subjects for testing modern advances to classic evolutionary problems including those of sexual selection, sex-ratio manipulation, life-history evolution, partitioning of reproduction and incest avoidance. It will be of interest to both students and researchers interested in behaviour and ecology.
Comparative Social Evolution
Comparative Social Evolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Comparative Social Evolution write by Dustin R. Rubenstein. This book was released on 2017-04-06. Comparative Social Evolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A comparative view of the major features of animal social life and the evolution of cooperative group living.
