ISBN:
0511781369
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9780511781360
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xii, 562 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Social Behaviour : Genes, Ecology and Evolution
DDC:
304.5
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Introduction: the uphill climb of sociology: towards a new synthesis Tamás Székely, Allen J. Moore and Jan Komdeur -- Profile: Undiminished passion Tim Birkhead -- Part I Foundations 1 Nature-nurture interactions Marla B. Sokolowski and Joel D. Levine Profile: social evolution, sexual intrigue and serendipity Andrew Cockbun 2 The quantitative genetics of social behaviour Bronwyn H. Bleakley, Jason B. Wolf and Allen J. Moore Profile: mating systems: integrating sexual conflict and ecology Nicholas B. Davies 3 Social behaviour and bird-song from a neural and endocrine perspective Elizabeth Adkins-Regan, Timothy J. DeVoogd and Jordan M. Moore Profile: In love with Ropalidia marginata: 34 years, and still going strong Raghavendra Gadagkar 4 Evolutionary game theory John M. McNamara and Franz J. Weissing Profile: The holder's dilemma: a cold shoulder or a warm inner glow David Haig 5 Recent advances in comparative methods Robert P. Freckleton and Mark Pagel Profile: Multi-component signals in ant communication Bert Hölldobler 6 Social evolution theory: a review of methods and approaches Tom Wenseleers, Andy Gardner and Kevin R. Foster Profiles: what's wrong with this picture? Sarah B. Hrdy -- Part II Themes 7 Aggression: towards an integration of gene, brain and behaviour Robert Huber and Edward A. Kravitz Profile: From behavioural observations, to genes, to evolution Laurent Keller 8 Social influences on communication signals: from honesty to exploitation Mark E. Hauber and Marlene Zuk Profile: reputation can make the world go round, or why are we sometime social Mangred Milinski 9 Important topics in group living Jens Krause and Graeme Ruxton Profile: a haphazard career Ronald Noe͏̈ 10 Sexual behaviour: conflict, cooperation and co-evolution Tomasso Pizzari and Russell Bonduriansky Profile: In celebration of questions, past, present and future Geoff A. Parker 11 Pair bonds and parental behaviour Lisa McGraw, Tamás Székely and Larry J. Young Profile: mating systems and generic variation Marion Petrie 12 Adaptations and constraints in the evolution of delayed dispersal: implications for cooperation Jan Komdeur and Jan Ekman Profile: Selections from a life in social selection David C. Queller 13 Social behaviour in microorganisms Kevin R. Foster Profile: the de novo evolution of cooperation: an unlikely event Paul B. Rainey 14 Social environments, social tactics and their fitness consequences in complex mammalian societies Marion L. East and Heribert Hofer Profile: evolutionary genetics and social behaviour: changed perspectives on sexual coevolution Michael G. Ritchie 15 Social behaviour in humans Ruth Mace Profile: genes and social behaviour: from gene to genome to 1000 genomes Gene E. Robinson -- Part III Implications 16 Personality and individual social specialisation Denis Réale and Niels J. Dingemanse Profile: behavioural ecology: why do I love thee? let me count the reasons Paul W. Sherman 17 Molecular and genetic influences on the neural substrate of social cognition in humans Louise Gallagher and David Skuse Profile: anonymous (and other)social experience and the evolution of cooperation by reciprocity Michael Taborsky 18 Population density, social behaviour and sex allocation Suzanne H. Alonzo and Ben C. Sheldon Profile: social theory based on natural selection Robert Trivers 19 Social behaviour and speciation Gerald S. Wilkinson and Leanna M. Birge Profile: look to the ants Edward O. Wilson 20 Social behaviour in conservation Daniel T. Blumstein Profile: the handicap principle and social behaviour Amotz Zahavi 21 Prospects for research in social behaviour: systems biology meets behaviour Allen J. Moore, Tamás Székely and Jan Komdeur. - "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"--Provided by publisher
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; Introduction The uphill climb of sociobiology: towards a new synthesis; Profile: Undiminished passion; Part I Foundations; 1 Nature-nurture interactions; Overview; 1.1 Introduction: a historical overview of the nature-nurture dichotomy; 1.2 Gene-by-environment interactions; 1.2.1 Gene-by-environment interactions: analysis of variance; 1.2.2 Gene-by-environment interactions: implications and limitations; 1.3 The interdependence of genes and the environment; 1.4 Different kinds of environments; 1.5 Development
Description / Table of Contents:
1.6 Epigenetic changes as an interface between nature and nurture1.7 Conclusions and future directions; Acknowledgements; Suggested readings; References; Profile: Social evolution, sexual intrigue and serendipity; 2 The quantitative genetics of social behaviour; Overview; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Evolution and behaviour; 2.3 Behavioural genetics and social behaviour; 2.3.1 Concepts; 2.3.2 Basic quantitative genetic theory; 2.4 A model of interacting phenotypes; 2.4.1 Indirect genetic effects; 2.4.2 The interaction effect coefficient, ψ; 2.4.3 The importance of ψ; 2.4.4 The measurement of ψ
Description / Table of Contents:
2.5 Experimental studies of indirect genetic effects2.5.1 Breeding designs; 2.5.2 Artificial selection and experimental evolution; 2.5.3 Inbred lines and G × G; 2.5.4 Measuring ψ; 2.6 Molecular genetics, genomics and interacting phenotypes; 2.7 Conclusions and future directions; Acknowledgements; Suggested readings; References; Profile: Mating systems: integrating sexual conflict and ecology; 3 Social behaviour and bird song from a neural and endocrine perspective; Overview; 3.1 Introduction to peripheral hormones and social behaviour
Description / Table of Contents:
3.1.1 Maleness is not testosterone and femaleness is not oestradiol3.1.2 Are individual, sex and species differences related to circulating hormones?; 3.1.3 Could hormonal targets in the brain be a source of individual, sex and species differences?; 3.1.4 Neurohormones are key mechanisms for social behaviour; 3.1.5 Mechanisms differ for the formation and maintenance of social relationships; 3.2 Learned song and the song system; 3.2.1 Song is learned - at the right time, from the right source; 3.2.2 Adult song is coordinated across seasons and time of day, and with mating status
Description / Table of Contents:
3.2.3 Gonadal steroids coordinate song and social behaviours with reproduction3.2.4 Sex differences in singing are based in song-system dimorphism; 3.2.5 Song perception goes with song production; 3.2.6 Huge (understudied) variation in the forms of learning and production; 3.2.7 Individual and species differences in brain space allocated to song predict song complexity; 3.2.8 Constraints and costs of a plastic system; 3.3 Trends, directions and gaps; 3.3.1 Hormones and personality types; 3.3.2 Hormones and signal honesty; 3.3.3 Mechanisms of mating strategies and tactics
Description / Table of Contents:
3.3.4 Cooperative breeding and sex-role reversal
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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