Research Catalog

Title

Selected readings in sociobiology / [edited by] James H. Hunt.

Publication

New York : McGraw-Hill, ©1980.

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Details

Additional Authors

Hunt, James H.

Description

xv, 447 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Social behavior in animals
• Sociobiology
• Behavior evolution
• Soziobiologie
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Soziobiologie
• Aufsatzsammlung

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Elements of sociality. The genetical evolution of social behaviour I ; The genetical evolution of social behaviour II (extract) / W.D. Hamilton -- Group selection and kin selection / J. Maynard Smith -- Kin selection and reproductive value / Manfred Milinski -- The evolution of reciprocal altruism / Robert L. Trivers -- The evolution of social behaior by Kin selection (part) / Mary Jane West Eberhard -- A theory of group selection / David Sloan Wilson -- Parent-offspring conflict / Robert L. Trivers.
• Social insects. The evolution of social life in wasps / Howard E. Evans -- The evolution of social behavior in bees / Charles D. Michener -- The genetical evolution of social behaviour. II (extract) / W.D. Hamilton -- The evolution of social behavior by Kin selection (concluding part) / Mary Jane West Eberhard -- Haplodiploidy and the evolution of social insects / Robert L. Trivers and Hope Hare -- Local mate competition and parental investment in social insects / Richard D. Alexander and Paul W. Sherman -- Sex ratio of parental investment in colonies of the social wasp Polistes fuscatus / Katherine M. Noonan -- Extrinsic versus intrinsic factors in the evolution of insect sociality / Howard E. Evans.
• Social higher vertebrates. On the evolution of mating systems in birds and mammals / Gordon H. Orians -- Sexual dimorphism is mammals: avian models and unanswered questions / Katherine Ralls -- Mammalian social systems: structure and function / J.H. Crook, J.E. ellis, and J.D. Goss-Custard -- Female incitation of male competition: a mechanism in sexual selection / Cathleen R. Cox and Burney J. LeBoeuf -- Alternate routs to sociality in jays--with a theory for the evolution of altruism and communal breeding / Jerram L. Brown.
• Homo sapiens. Human territoriality: an ecological reassessment / Rada Dyson-Hudson and Eric Alden Smith -- Inclusive fitness and human family structure / Pierre L. van den Berghe and David P. Barash.
• Ramifications. Sociobiology--another biological determinism / Sociobiology Study Group of Science for the People -- Academic vigilantism and the political significance of sociobiology / Edward O. Wilson -- Social Darwinism lives! (Should it?) / Peter H. Klopfer.

ISBN

• 0070313083
• 9780070313088

LCCN

80010671

OCLC

• ocm06016333
• 6016333
• SCSB-9434483

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library