The Evolution of Mammalian Sociality in an Ecological Perspective

• Main Author: Jones, Clara B. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Ecology,
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Animal ecology.; Applied ecology.; Ecology.; Evolutionary biology.; Life Sciences.; Animal Ecology.; Theoretical Ecology/Statistics.; Evolutionary Biology.; Applied Ecology.

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 an...

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.