Overview
- Situates the field of mammalian social biology beyond single species and populations
- Offers new notations for group and individual social competition among species
- Provides an ecological perspective of vertebrate sociality
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Ecology (BRIEFSECOLOGY)
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This brief discusses factors associated with group formation, group maintenance, group population structure, and other events and processes (e.g., physiology, behavior) related to mammalian social evolution. Within- and between-lineages, features of prehistoric and extant social mammals, patterns and linkages are discussed as components of a possible social “tool-kit”. "Top-down” (predators to nutrients), as well as “bottom-up” (nutrients to predators) effects are assessed. The present synthesis also emphasizes outcomes of Hebbian (synaptic) decisions on Malthusian parameters (growth rates of populations) and their consequences for (shifting) mean fitnesses of populations. Ecology and evolution (EcoEvo) are connected via the organism’s “norms of reaction” (genotype x environment interactions; life-history tradeoffs of reproduction, survival, and growth) exposed to selection, with the success of genotypes influenced by intensities of selection as well as neutral (e.g. mutation rates) and stochastic effects. At every turn, life history trajectories are assumed to arise from “decisions” made by types responding to competition for limiting resources constrained by Hamilton’s rule (inclusive fitness operations).
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Book Title: The Evolution of Mammalian Sociality in an Ecological Perspective
Authors: Clara B. Jones
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Ecology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03931-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Clara B. Jones 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-03930-5Published: 30 January 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-03931-2Published: 21 January 2014
Series ISSN: 2192-4759
Series E-ISSN: 2192-4767
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 112
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Animal Ecology, Theoretical Ecology/Statistics, Evolutionary Biology, Applied Ecology