Overview
Deals with the key questions of sociobiology: If Darwin and Dawkins were right, the selection process in evolution would always have favoured egoism. Why, then, do so many animal groups show so many actions of altruism?
Internationally leading scientists contribute to the clarification of these questions dealing with “their” favourite animal groups
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Reviews
From the reviews:
"The ecology of social evolution … attempt to redress a perceived bias for genetic interpretations in the study of social evolution by focussing on the ecological side. … there are new and valuable insights in this book. Readers will find authoritative and up-to-date reviews on a wide range of taxa, from social insects both familiar and unfamiliar, to social vertebrates including cooperatively breeding birds, mole-rats and primates." (Andrew F.G. Bourke, Myrmecological News, Vol. 200 (11), August, 2008)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ecology of Social Evolution
Editors: Judith Korb, Jörgen Heinze
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75957-7
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-75956-0Published: 18 February 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-09507-8Published: 19 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-75957-7Published: 23 February 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 266
Topics: Behavioral Sciences, Animal Ecology, Community & Population Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, Zoology, Sociology, general