Helping Communal Breeding in Birds
Ecology and Evolution
Will be published approx. on 14. July 2014
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Paperback/Softback
374 pages
978-0-691-60964-5 (ISBN)
Description
An overview of the extensive and frequently controversial literature on communally breeding birds developed since the early 1960s, when students of evolution began to examine sociality as a product of natural selection. Jerram Brown provides original data from his own theoretical and empirical studies and summarizes the wide array of results and interpretations made by others. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New Jersey
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
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Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
703 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-691-60964-5 (9780691609645)
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07/2014
1st Edition
Princeton University Press
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Julie L. Brown is the author of the historical fiction, Bend, Don't Break (finalist for the Wishing Shelf Independent Book Award), the alternative-history novel, No One Will Save Us (finalist for the Next Generation Indie Book Award for Fantasy, finalist for the National Indie Excellence Book Award for African American Fiction, winner of the Independent Press Award for African American Fiction), and under the pen name, J. L. Brown, she is also the creator of the Jade Harrington series, political thrillers which include the novels, Don't Speak, Rule of Law, and The Divide, and the short story, "Few Are Chosen." Her books have been praised by Kirkus Reviews, the Midwest Book Review, and the Seattle Book Review.She is a member of Black Women Write Seattle, Crime Writers of Color, Mystery Writers of America, and the Alliance of Independent Authors.Julie earned an MFA in Creative Writing from the Stonecoast program at the University of Southern Maine. She resides with her family in the Pacific Northwest, where she is working on her next novel.
Content
*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Preface, pg. xiii*Acknowledgments, pg. xvii*1. Why Study Helping Behavior?, pg. 1*2. The Discovery of Helping Behavior and a Classification of Avian Communal Breeding Systems, pg. 8*3. Climate, Geography, and Taxonomy, pg. 34*4. Elements of Inclusive Fitness Theory for Field Studies, pg. 45*5. Delayed Breeding Sets the Stage for Helping, pg. 62*6. Reduced Dispersal Sets the Stage for Helping, pg. 91*7. Territorial Inheritance as Parental Facilitation, pg. 102*8. Mutualism, Cost-sharing, and Group Size, pg. 116*9. Mutualistic Mating Systems Polyandry and Uncertain Paternity, pg. 132*10. Mutualistic Mating Systems Joint Nesting and Uncertain Maternity, pg. 154*11. Does Helping Really Benefit the Helped?, pg. 169*12. The Genetic Structure of Social Units215, pg. 190*13. Indirect Selection for Helping, pg. 215*14. Direct Fitness, Mutualism, and Reciprocity, pg. 224*15. Parent-Offspring Relationships, pg. 250*16. Infanticide. Dominance, and Destructive Behavior, pg. 265*17. Diet and Group Territoriality, pg. 270*18. Synthesis, pg. 276*Appendix, pg. 291*Annotated Glossary, pg. 297*Author Index, pg. 337*Taxonomic Index, pg. 343*Subject Index, pg. 352