The Evolution of Mammalian Sociality in an Ecological Perspective - Jones, Clara B.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014)
1.Introduction: Definitions, Background -- 2. Competition For Limiting Resources, Hamilton's Rule And Chesson's R* -- 3. Flexible And Derived Varieties of Mammalian Social Organization: Promiscuity In Aggregations May Have Served As A Recent "Toolkit" Giving Rise To "Sexual Segregation", Polygynous Social Structures, Monogamy, Polyandry And Leks Abstract -- 4. Multimale-Multifemale Groups And "Nested" Architectures: Collaboration Among Mammalian Males -- 5. Higher "Grades" Of Sociality In Class Mammalia: Primitive Eusociality -- 6. Ecological Models As Working Paradigms For "Unpacking" Positive And Negative Interactions Among Social Mammals -- 7. Mechanisms Underlying The Behavioral Ecology Of Group Formation -- 8. The Evolution Of Mammalian Sociality By Sexual Selection -- 9. Proximate Causation: Functional Traits And The Ubiquity Of Signaler To Receiver Interactions: From Biochemical To Whole Organism Levels Of Mammalian Social Organization -- 10. Synopsis.
Keywords: Animal ecology; Ecology .; Evolutionary biology; Applied ecology; Animal Ecology; Theoretical Ecology/Statistics.; Evolutionary Biology; Applied Ecology