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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Evolution of Mammalian Sociality in an Ecological Perspective
  name:
    name part: Jones, Clara B.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XI, 112 p. 11 illus., 3 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: 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).
  table of contents: 1.Introduction: Definitions, Background -- 2. Competition For Limiting Resources, Hamilton’s Rule And Chesson’s R* -- 3. 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 Abstract -- 4. Multimale-Multifemale Groups And “Nested” Architectures: Collaboration Among Mammalian Males -- 5. Higher “Grades” Of Sociality In Class Mammalia: Primitive Eusociality -- 6. Ecological Models As Working Paradigms For “Unpacking” Positive And Negative Interactions Among Social Mammals -- 7. Mechanisms Underlying The Behavioral Ecology Of Group Formation -- 8. The Evolution Of Mammalian Sociality By Sexual Selection -- 9. Proximate Causation: Functional Traits And The Ubiquity Of Signaler To Receiver Interactions: From Biochemical To Whole Organism Levels Of Mammalian Social Organization -- 10. Synopsis.
  note: by Clara B. Jones.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Animal ecology
  subject:
    topic: Applied ecology
  subject:
    topic: Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Evolutionary biology
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Animal Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Theoretical Ecology/Statistics
  subject:
    topic: Evolutionary Biology
  subject:
    topic: Applied Ecology
  classification: QH540-549.5
  classification: 591.7
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      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: SpringerBriefs in Ecology
  identifier: 9783319039312
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03931-2
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