Social Evolution and Inclusive Fitness Theory : An Introduction.

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowlegments -- 1 Social Behavior and Evolutionary Thought -- 1.1 Explanations for Apparent Design -- 1.2 Natural Selection and Social Behavior -- 1.3 Arguments for Group Benefit -- 1.4 Enter Hamilton -- 1.5 Multilevel Selection Theory -- 1.6 The Generality of Inclusive Fitness Theory -- 2 Models of Social Behavior -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The Donation Game -- 2.3 The Nonadditive Donation Game -- 2.4 Other Social Interactions -- 2.5 Public Goods Games -- 2.6 Threshold Public Goods Games -- 2.7 Interactions in Structured Populations -- 2.8 Summary -- 3 The Price Equation -- 3.1 A General Description of Selection -- 3.2 Genetic Selection -- 3.3 Illustrative Applications of the Price Equation -- 3.4 Important Caveats -- 3.5 Summary -- 4 Inclusive Fitness and Hamilton's Rule -- 4.1 Inclusive Fitness Extends Classical Darwinian Fitness -- 4.2 Fitness Effects as Regression on Genes -- 4.3 Deriving Hamilton's Rule in the Simplest Case -- 4.4 Perceived Limitations of Inclusive Fitness Theory -- 4.5 Summary -- 5 Nonadditive Interactions and Hamilton's Rule -- 5.1 Replicator Dynamics for Interactions between Relatives -- 5.2 Extending Hamilton's Rule to Deal with Nonadditivity -- 5.3 The Price Equation and Levels of Causal Analysis -- 5.4 Summary -- 6 Conditional Behaviors and Inclusive Fitness -- 6.1 Implicit and Explicit Conditionality -- 6.2 Modeling Conditional Behavior -- 6.3 Claims That Assortment Is More Fundamental Than Relatedness -- 6.4 Summary -- 7 Variants of Hamilton's Rule and Evolutionary Explanations -- 7.1 Variants of Hamilton's Rule -- 7.2 Geometric Relatedness Underlies Phenotypic Assortment -- 7.3 Explanations for Greenbeards -- 7.4 Different Viewpoints on Conditional Traits -- 7.5 Summary.

8 Heritability, Maximization, and Evolutionary Explanations -- 8.1 What Drives Social Evolution? -- 8.2 Selection and Heritability -- 8.3 Do Individuals Act to Maximize Their Inclusive Fitness? -- 8.4 Ultimate Causes and Social Evolution -- 8.5 Summary -- 9 What is Fitness? -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Haldane's Dilemma -- 9.3 Reproductive Value and Class Structure -- 9.4 Fitness, Fecundity, and Payoffs -- 9.5 Summary -- 10 Evidence, Other Approaches, and Further Topics -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Empirical Support for Inclusive Fitness Theory -- 10.3 Some Further Topics in Social Evolution Theory -- 10.4 Other Theoretical Approaches -- 10.5 Conclusion -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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