Cooperation among Animals : An Evolutionary Perspective.

Intro -- Contents -- 1 Historical Perspectives on Cooperative Behavior -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Early philosophical ponderings on cooperation -- 1.3 Early evolutionary biology and the study of cooperation -- 1.4 Experimental work on cooperation: Warder Clyde Allee and the "The Chicago School" of animal behavior -- 1.5 "Modern" approaches to the study of cooperative behavior -- 1.6 Onward and upward -- 2 Theoretical Perspectives on the Evolution of Cooperation -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Inclusive fitness -- 2.3 Within- and between-group selection -- 2.4 Reciprocity and the prisoner's dilemma -- 2.5 Byproduct mutualism -- 2.6 The cooperator's dilemma game -- 2.7 Onward and upward -- 3 Cooperation in Fishes -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Egg trading and reciprocity in simultaneously hermaphroditic fishes -- 3.3 Helpers-at-the-nest -- 3.4 Nest raiding in three-spined sticklebacks -- 3.5 Intraspecific cleaning -- 3.6 Cooperative foraging -- 3.7 Shreckstoff -- 3.8 Mobbing behavior -- 3.9 Predator inspection -- 3.10 Summary -- 4 Cooperation in Birds -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Territoriality and cooperation -- 4.3 Cooperative hunting -- 4.4 Food calls, information, and food sharing -- 4.5 Alarm calls -- 4.6 Mobbing behavior -- 4.7 Summary -- 5 Cooperation in Mammals I: Nonprimates -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Grooming behavior -- 5.3 Stotting, tail flagging, alarm signals, and vigilance -- 5.4 Coalitions -- 5.5 Alloparenting and helping behavior -- 5.6 Cooperative hunting -- 5.7 Bloodsharing and reciprocal altruism in bats -- 5.8 Care-giving behavior in dolphins -- 5.9 Summary -- 6 Cooperation in Mammals II: Nonhuman primates -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Grooming behavior -- 6.3 Nongrooming-based coalitions -- 6.4 Cooperative hunting -- 6.5 Intergroup conflicts and cooperation -- 6.6 Scanning, alarm calls, and other anti-predator behaviors.

6.7 Alloparenting and helping -- 6.8 Summary -- 7 Cooperation in Insects -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 The evolution of eusociality -- 7.3 Worker "policing" in honeybees -- 7.4 Honeybee colonies as superorganisms: foraging, anti-predator behavior, and hive thermoregulation -- 7.5 "Social contracts" in paper wasps -- 7.6 Colony founding -- 7.7 Summary -- 8 To the Future -- 8.1 A key to categories of cooperation -- 8.2 Quantifying the payoff matrix -- 8.3 Correlates of cooperation -- 8.4 Does the skew towards reciprocity in the theoretical literature reflect nature? -- 8.5 Spatial games and the evolution of cooperation -- 8.6 The bright side and the dark side -- References -- Author Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Species Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- General Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- W.

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