Reproductive Skew in Vertebrates (eBook, PDF)

Proximate and Ultimate Causes
Redaktion: Hager, Reinmar

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511636400
• Artikelnr.: 38186048

Inhaltsangabe

1. Models of reproductive skew - outside options and the resolution of
reproductive conflict Rufus A. Johnstone and Michael A. Cant; 2.
Reproductive conflict and the evolution of menopause Michael A.Cant, Rufus
A. Johnstone and Andrew F. Russell; 3. Reproductive skew in
female-dominated mammalian societies Kay E. Holekamp and Anne L. Engh; 4.
The effects of heterogeneous regimes on reproductive skew in eutherian
mammals Clara B. Jones; 5.Social skew as a measure of the costs and
benefits of group-living in marmots. Thea B. Wang, Peter Nonacs and Daniel
T. Blumstein; 6. Explaining variation in reproductive skew among male
langurs: effects of future mating prospects and ecological factors Reinmar
Hager; 7. The causes and consequences of reproductive skew in male primates
Nobuyuki Kutsukake and Charles L. Nunn; 8. Sociality and reproductive skew
in horses and zebras Daniel I. Rubenstein and Cassandra M. Nuñez; 9.
Reproductive skew in avian societies Walter D. Koenig, Sheng-Feng Shen,
Alan H. Krakauer and Joseph Haydock; 10. Reproductive skew in cooperative
fish groups: virtue and limitations of alternative modelling approaches
Michael Taborsky; 11. Reproductive skew in primitively eusocial wasps: how
useful are current models? Jeremy Field and Michael A. Cant; 12.
Reproductive skew in female common marmosets: contributions of infanticide
and subordinate self-restraint David H. Abbott, Leslie Digby and Wendy
Saltzman; 13. Reproductive skew in African mole-rats: behavioural and
physiological mechanisms to maintain high skew Chris G. Faulkes and Nigel
C. Bennett; 14. The causes of physiological suppression in vertebrate
societies: a synthesis Andrew J. Young; 15. Understanding variation in
reproductive skew: directions for future empirical research Sarah J. Hodge;
16. On the evolution of reproductive skew: a genetical view W. Edwin Harris
and Reinmar Hager; 17. Social conflict resolution, life history, and the
reconstruction of skew Bernard J. Crespi.