Tim Clutton-Brock

Mammal Societies (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

The book aims to integrate our understanding of mammalian societies into a novel synthesis that is relevant to behavioural ecologists, ecologists, and anthropologists. It adopts a coherent structure that deals initially with the characteristics and strategies of females, before covering those of males, cooperative societies and hominid societies. It reviews our current understanding both of the structure of societies and of the strategies of individuals; it combines coverage of relevant areas of theory with coverage of interspecific comparisons, intraspecific comparisons and experiments; it explores both evolutionary causes of different traits and their ecological consequences; and it integrates research on different groups of mammals with research on primates and humans and attempts to put research on human societies into a broader perspective.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 760
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781119095347
• Artikelnr.: 44948843

Autorenporträt

Professor Tim Clutton-Brock is one of the world's leading zoologists. As of 2008, he was the Prince Philip Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and head of the Large Animal Research Group at the Department of Zoology of the University of Cambridge, and a fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge. He also holds extraordinary professorships in the Department of Zoology and Entomology and the Mammal Research Institute of the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1987. He is an ISI Highly Cited researcher. He won the 1997 Frink Medal of the Zoological Society of London. In 2012, he was awarded the Darwin Medal from the Royal Society for his work on the diversity of animal societies and demonstration of their effects on the evolution of reproductive strategies, and the operation of selection and the dynamics of populations. Professor Clutton-Brock's early work was on social behaviour in primates. Much of his recent work focuses on three long-term studies: of red deer on the Scottish island of Rùm, of Soay sheep on St Kilda, and of meerkats in the southern Kalahari. He is one of the founders of the Kalahari Meerkat Project, the subjects of which are featured in the television programme Meerkat Manor, and the BBC's Natural World series.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface

Chapter 1: Social Evolution

Chapter 2: Female sociality

Chapter 3: Female dispersal and philopatry

Chapter 4: Female mating decisions

Chapter 5: Maternal care

Chapter 6: Social development

Chapter 7: Communication

Chapter 8: Competition between females

Chapter 9: Cooperation between females

Chapter 10: Mating systems

Chapter 11: Association between males

Chapter 12: Male dispersal and its consequences

Chapter 13: Reproductive competition among males

Chapter 14: Relationships between males in multi-male groups

Chapter 15: Males and females

Chapter 16: Paternal Care

Chapter 17: Cooperative breeding

Chapter 18: Sex differences

Chapter 19: Hominins and humans

Chapter 20: Human behaviour

Index