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The Evolution of Mammalian Sociality in an Ecological Perspective

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  • © 2014

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Authors:
  1. Clara B. Jones

    1. Mammals and Phenogroups (MaP), Asheville, USA

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  • 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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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: Definitions, Background

    • Clara B. Jones
    Pages 1-7

  3. Competition for Limiting Resources, Hamilton’s Rule, and Chesson’s R*

    • Clara B. Jones
    Pages 9-18

  4. Flexible and Derived Varieties of Mammalian Social Organization: Promiscuity in Aggregations May Have Served as a Recent “Toolkit” Giving Rise to “Sexual Segregation,” Polygynous Social Structures, Monogamy, Polyandry, and Leks

    • Clara B. Jones
    Pages 19-36

  5. Multimale-Multifemale Groups and “Nested” Architectures: Collaboration Among Mammalian Males

    • Clara B. Jones
    Pages 37-45

  6. Higher “Grades” of Sociality in Class Mammalia: Primitive Eusociality

    • Clara B. Jones
    Pages 47-54

  7. Ecological Models as Working Paradigms for “Unpacking” Positive and Negative Interactions Among Social Mammals

    • Clara B. Jones
    Pages 55-64

  8. Mechanisms Underlying the Behavioral Ecology of Group Formation

    • Clara B. Jones
    Pages 65-79

  9. The Evolution of Mammalian Sociality by Sexual Selection

    • Clara B. Jones
    Pages 81-96

  10. Proximate Causation: Functional Traits and the Ubiquity of Signaler to Receiver Interactions: From Biochemical to Whole Organism Levels of Mammalian Social Organization

    • Clara B. Jones
    Pages 97-103

  11. Synopsis

    • Clara B. Jones
    Pages 105-110

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 111-112
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About this book

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).

Authors and Affiliations

  • Mammals and Phenogroups (MaP), Asheville, USA

    Clara B. Jones

About the author

Clara B. Jones received her Ph.D. in Biopsychology from Cornell University. Since then she has served as Harvard University Postdoctoral Fellow in Population Genetics and as visiting faculty at Rutgers University in New Jersey as well as a visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology in Bavaria. Dr. Jones has conducted fieldwork in Central and South America and has published over 100 articles and book chapters as well as four books.

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