Helping Communal Breeding in Birds: Ecology and Evolution

J. L. Brown

Published by Princeton University Press 1987

Helping Communal Breeding in Birds

Ecology and Evolution

J. L. Brown

In the series Princeton Legacy Library

Volume 43 in the series Monographs in Behavior and Ecology

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400858569

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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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xiii
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xvii
1. Why Study Helping Behavior? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. The Discovery of Helping Behavior and a Classification of Avian Communal Breeding Systems Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	8
3. Climate, Geography, and Taxonomy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	34
4. Elements of Inclusive Fitness Theory for Field Studies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
5. Delayed Breeding Sets the Stage for Helping Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	62
6. Reduced Dispersal Sets the Stage for Helping Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
7. Territorial Inheritance as Parental Facilitation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	102
8. Mutualism, Cost-sharing, and Group Size Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	116
9. Mutualistic Mating Systems Polyandry and Uncertain Paternity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	132
10. Mutualistic Mating Systems Joint Nesting and Uncertain Maternity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
11. Does Helping Really Benefit the Helped? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
12. The Genetic Structure of Social Units215 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	190
13. Indirect Selection for Helping Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
14. Direct Fitness, Mutualism, and Reciprocity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	224
15. Parent-Offspring Relationships Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	250
16. Infanticide. Dominance, and Destructive Behavior Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
17. Diet and Group Territoriality Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	270
18. Synthesis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	276
Appendix Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
Annotated Glossary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
Author Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	337
Taxonomic Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	343
Subject Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	352

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