
Helping Communal Breeding in Birds
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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
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