Cooperative Breeding in Mammals
Nancy G. Solomon, Jeffrey A. French
Cooperative breeding refers to a social system in which individuals other than the parents provide care for the offspring. Since individuals delay breeding and invest in the offspring of others, cooperative breeding poses a challenge to a Darwinian explanation of the evolution of social behavior. The contributors to this book explore the evolutionary, ecological, behavioral, and physiological basis of cooperative breeding in mammals. The book contains a collection of chapters by the leading researchers in the field, and it is the first book dedicated exclusively to the study of mammalian cooperative breeding.
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Année:
1996
Editeur::
Cambridge University Press
Langue:
english
Pages:
402
ISBN 10:
0521454913
ISBN 13:
9780521454919
Fichier:
PDF, 11.72 MB
IPFS:
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english, 1996