Sociobiology

, by Wilson, Edward O.

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ISBN: 9780674002357 | 0674002350
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Copyright: 3/24/2000

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Social Evolution	p. 2
The Morality of the Gene	p. 3
Elementary Concepts of Sociobiology	p. 7
The Multiplier Effect	p. 11
The Evolutionary Pacemaker and Social Drift	p. 13
The Concept of Adaptive Demography	p. 14
The Kinds and Degrees of Sociality	p. 16
The Concept of Behavioral Scaling	p. 19
The Dualities of Evolutionary Biology	p. 21
Reasoning in Sociobiology	p. 27
The Prime Movers of Social Evolution	p. 32
Phylogenetic Inertia	p. 33
Ecological Pressure	p. 37
The Reversibility of Social Evolution	p. 62
The Relevant Principles of Population Biology	p. 63
Microevolution	p. 64
Heritability	p. 68
Polygenes and Linkage Disequilibrium	p. 70
The Maintenance of Genetic Variation	p. 70
Phenodeviants and Genetic Assimilation	p. 72
Inbreeding and Kinship	p. 73
Assortative and Disassortative Mating	p. 80
Population Growth	p. 80
Density Dependence	p. 82
Intercompensation	p. 89
Population Cycles of Mammals	p. 90
Life Tables	p. 90
The Stable Age Distribution	p. 92
Reproductive Value	p. 93
Reproductive Effort	p. 95
The Evolution of Life Histories	p. 96
r and K Selection	p. 99
The Evolution of Gene Flow	p. 103
Group Selection and Altruism	p. 106
Group Selection	p. 106
Interdemic (Interpopulation) Selection	p. 107
Kin Selection	p. 117
Reciprocal Altruism	p. 120
Altruistic Behavior	p. 121
The Field of Righteousness	p. 129
Social Mechanisms	p. 130
Group Size, Reproduction, and Time-Energy Budgets	p. 131
The Determinants of Group Size	p. 132
Adjustable Group Size	p. 137
The Multiplication and Reconstitution of Societies	p. 138
Time-Energy Budgets	p. 142
The Development and Modification of Social Behavior	p. 144
Tracking the Environment with Evolutionary Change	p. 145
The Hierarchy of Organismic Responses	p. 151
Tracking the Environment with Morphogenetic Change	p. 152
Nongenetic Transmission of Maternal Experience	p. 152
Hormones and Behavior	p. 153
Learning	p. 156
Socialization	p. 159
Play	p. 164
Tradition, Culture, and Invention	p. 168
Tool Using	p. 172
Communication: Basic Principles	p. 176
Human versus Animal Communication	p. 177
Discrete versus Graded Signals	p. 178
The Principle of Antithesis	p. 179
Signal Specificity	p. 181
Signal Economy	p. 183
The Increase of Information	p. 185
The Measurement of Communication	p. 194
The Pitfalls of Information Analysis	p. 199
Redundancy	p. 200
Communication: Functions and Complex Systems	p. 201
The Functions of Communication	p. 202
The Higher Classification of Signal Function	p. 216
Complex Systems	p. 218
Communication: Origins and Evolution	p. 224
The Sensory Channels	p. 231
Evolutionary Competition among Sensory Channels	p. 240
Aggression	p. 242
Aggression and Competition	p. 243
The Mechanisms of Competition	p. 244
The Limits of Aggression	p. 247
The Proximate Causes of Aggression	p. 248
Human Aggression	p. 254
Social Spacing, Including Territory	p. 256
Individual Distance	p. 257
A "Typical" Territorial Species	p. 259
The History of the Territory Concept	p. 260
The Multiple Forms of Territory	p. 261
The Theory of Territorial Evolution	p. 266
Special Properties of Territory	p. 270
Territories and Population Regulation	p. 274
Interspecific Territoriality	p. 276
Dominance Systems	p. 279
History of the Dominance Concept	p. 281
Examples of Dominance Orders	p. 282
Special Properties of Dominance Orders	p. 286
The Advantages of Being Dominant	p. 287
The Compensations of Being Subordinate	p. 290
The Determinants of Dominance	p. 291
Intergroup Dominance	p. 295
Interspecific Dominance	p. 296
Scaling in Aggressive Behavior	p. 296
Roles and Castes	p. 298
The Adaptive Significance of Roles	p. 299
The Optimization of Caste Systems	p. 300
Roles in Vertebrate Societies	p. 309
Roles in Human Societies	p. 312
Sex and Society	p. 314
The Meaning of Sex	p. 315
Evolution of the Sex Ratio	p. 316
Sexual Selection	p. 318
The Theory of Parental Investment	p. 324
The Origins of Polygamy	p. 327
The Origins of Monogamy and Pair Bonding	p. 330
Communal Displays	p. 331
Other Ultimate Causes of Sexual Dimorphism	p. 334
Parental Care	p. 336
The Ecology of Parental Care	p. 336
Parent-Offspring Conflict	p. 341
Parental Care and Social Evolution in the Insects	p. 344
Parental Care and Social Evolution in the Primates	p. 346
Other Animal Ontogenies	p. 348
Alloparental Care	p. 349
Adoption	p. 352
Social Symbioses	p. 353
Social Commensalism	p. 354
Social Mutualism	p. 356
Parabiosis	p. 358
Mixed Species Groups in Vertebrates	p. 358
Trophic Parasitism	p. 361
Xenobiosis	p. 362
Temporary Social Parasitism in Insects	p. 362
Brood Parasitism in Birds	p. 364
Slavery in Ants	p. 368
Inquilinism in Ants	p. 371
The General Occurrence of Social Parasitism in Insects	p. 373
Breaking the Code	p. 375
The Social Species	p. 378
The Four Pinnacles of Social Evolution	p. 379
The Colonial Microorganisms and Invertebrates	p. 383
The Adaptive Basis of Coloniality	p. 386
General Evolutionary Trends in Coloniality	p. 387
Slime Molds and Colonial Bacteria	p. 387
The Coelenterates	p. 393
The Ectoprocts	p. 394
The Social Insects	p. 397
What Is a Social Insect?	p. 398
The Organization of Insect Societies	p. 399
The Prime Movers of Higher Social Evolution in Insects	p. 415
The Social Wasps	p. 418
The Ants	p. 421
The Social Bees	p. 428
The Termites	p. 433
The Cold-Blooded Vertebrates	p. 438
Fish Schools	p. 438
The Social Behavior of Frogs	p. 442
The Social Behavior of Reptiles	p. 444
The Birds	p. 448
The Crotophaginae	p. 450
The Jays	p. 451
Evolutionary Trends within the Mammals	p. 456
General Patterns	p. 468
The Whiptail Wallaby (Macropus parryi)	p. 469
The Black-tail Prairie Dog (Cynomys ludovicianus)	p. 472
Dolphins	p. 473
The Ungulates and Elephants	p. 479
The Ecological Basis of Social Evolution	p. 484
Chevrotains (Tragulidae)	p. 486
The Vicuna (Vicugna vicugna)	p. 486
The Blue Wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus)	p. 490
The African Elephant (Loxodonta africana)	p. 491
The Carnivores	p. 499
The Black Bear (Ursus americanus)	p. 502
The Coati (Nasua narica)	p. 502
The Lion (Panthera leo)	p. 504
Wolves and Dogs (Canidae)	p. 504
The Nonhuman Primates	p. 514
The Distinctive Social Traits or Primates	p. 514
The Ecology of Social Behavior in Primates	p. 518
The Lesser Mouse Lemur (Microcebus murinus)	p. 526
The Orang-utan (Pongo pygmaeus)	p. 526
The Dusky Titi (Callicebus moloch)	p. 527
The White-Handed Gibbon (Hylobates lar)	p. 528
The Mantled Howler (Alouatta villosa)	p. 529
The Ring-Tailed Lemur (Lemur catta)	p. 530
The Hamadryas Baboon (Papio hamadryas)	p. 531
The Eastern Mountain Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla beringei)	p. 535
The Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes)	p. 539
Man: From Sociobiology to Sociology	p. 547
Plasticity of Social Organization	p. 548
Barter and Reciprocal Altruism	p. 551
Bonding, Sex, and Division of Labor	p. 553
Role Playing and Polyethism	p. 554
Communication	p. 555
Culture, Ritual, and Religion	p. 559
Ethics	p. 562
Esthetics	p. 564
Territoriality and Tribalism	p. 564
Early Social Evolution	p. 565
Later Social Evolution	p. 569
The Future	p. 574
Glossary	p. 577
Bibliography	p. 599
Index	p. 665
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Sociobiology

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