Social behaviour: genes, ecology and evolution

Introduction: the uphill climb of sociology: towards a new synthesis Tamás Székely, Allen J. Moore and Jan Komdeur -- Profile: Undiminished passion Tim Birkhead -- Part I Foundations 1 Nature-nurture interactions Marla B. Sokolowski and Joel D. Levine Profile: social evolution, sexual intrigue and serendipity Andrew Cockbun 2 The quantitative genetics of social behaviour Bronwyn H. Bleakley, Jason B. Wolf and Allen J. Moore Profile: mating systems: integrating sexual conflict and ecology Nicholas B. Davies 3 Social behaviour and bird-song from a neural and endocrine perspective Elizabeth Adkins-Regan, Timothy J. DeVoogd and Jordan M. Moore Profile: In love with Ropalidia marginata: 34 years, and still going strong Raghavendra Gadagkar 4 Evolutionary game theory John M. McNamara and Franz J. Weissing Profile: The holder's dilemma: a cold shoulder or a warm inner glow David Haig 5 Recent advances in comparative methods Robert P. Freckleton and Mark Pagel Profile: Multi-component signals in ant communication Bert Hölldobler 6 Social evolution theory: a review of methods and approaches Tom Wenseleers, Andy Gardner and Kevin R. Foster Profiles: what's wrong with this picture? Sarah B. Hrdy -- Part II Themes 7 Aggression: towards an integration of gene, brain and behaviour Robert Huber and Edward A. Kravitz Profile: From behavioural observations, to genes, to evolution Laurent Keller 8 Social influences on communication signals: from honesty to exploitation Mark E. Hauber and Marlene Zuk Profile: reputation can make the world go round, or why are we sometime social Mangred Milinski 9 Important topics in group living Jens Krause and Graeme Ruxton Profile: a haphazard career Ronald Noë 10 Sexual behaviour: conflict, cooperation and co-evolution Tomasso Pizzari and Russell Bonduriansky Profile: In celebration of questions, past, present and future Geoff A. Parker 11 Pair bonds and parental behaviour Lisa McGraw, Tamás Székely and Larry J. Young Profile: mating systems and generic variation Marion Petrie 12 Adaptations and constraints in the evolution of delayed dispersal: implications for cooperation Jan Komdeur and Jan Ekman Profile: Selections from a life in social selection David C. Queller 13 Social behaviour in microorganisms Kevin R. Foster Profile: the de novo evolution of cooperation: an unlikely event Paul B. Rainey 14 Social environments, social tactics and their fitness consequences in complex mammalian societies Marion L. East and Heribert Hofer Profile: evolutionary genetics and social behaviour: changed perspectives on sexual coevolution Michael G. Ritchie 15 Social behaviour in humans Ruth Mace Profile: genes and social behaviour: from gene to genome to 1000 genomes Gene E. Robinson -- Part III Implications 16 Personality and individual social specialisation Denis Réale and Niels J. Dingemanse Profile: behavioural ecology: why do I love thee? let me count the reasons Paul W. Sherman 17 Molecular and genetic influences on the neural substrate of social cognition in humans Louise Gallagher and David Skuse Profile: anonymous (and other)social experience and the evolution of cooperation by reciprocity Michael Taborsky 18 Population density, social behaviour and sex allocation Suzanne H. Alonzo and Ben C. Sheldon Profile: social theory based on natural selection Robert Trivers 19 Social behaviour and speciation Gerald S. Wilkinson and Leanna M. Birge Profile: look to the ants Edward O. Wilson 20 Social behaviour in conservation Daniel T. Blumstein Profile: the handicap principle and social behaviour Amotz Zahavi 21 Prospects for research in social behaviour: systems biology meets behaviour Allen J. Moore, Tamás Székely and Jan Komdeur. - "Humans live in large and extensive societies and spend much of their time interacting socially. Likewise, most other animals also interact socially. Social behaviour is of constant fascination to biologists and psychologists of many disciplines, from behavioural ecology to comparative biology and sociobiology. The two major approaches used to study social behaviour involve either the mechanism of behaviour - where it has come from and how it has evolved, or the function of the behaviour studied. With guest articles from leaders in the field, theoretical foundations along with recent advances are presented to give a truly multidisciplinary overview of social behaviour, for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. Topics include aggression, communication, group living, sexual behaviour and co-operative breeding. With examples ranging from bacteria to social mammals and humans, a variety of research tools are used, including candidate gene approaches, quantitative genetics, neuro-endocrine studies, cost-benefit and phylogenetic analyses and evolutionary game theory"--Provided by publisher

Humans live in large and extensive societies and spend much of their time interacting socially. Likewise, most other animals also interact socially. Social behaviour is of constant fascination to biologists and psychologists of many disciplines, from behavioural ecology to comparative biology and sociobiology. The two major approaches used to study social behaviour involve either the mechanism of behaviour - where it has come from and how it has evolved, or the function of the behaviour studied. With guest articles from leaders in the field, theoretical foundations along with recent advances are presented to give a truly multidisciplinary overview of social behaviour, for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. Topics include aggression, communication, group living, sexual behaviour and co-operative breeding. With examples ranging from bacteria to social mammals and humans, a variety of research tools are used, including candidate gene approaches, quantitative genetics, neuro-endocrine studies, cost-benefit and phylogenetic analyses and evolutionary game theory

"Humans live in large and extensive societies and spend much of their time interacting socially. Likewise, most other animals also interact socially. Social behaviour is of constant fascination to biologists and psychologists of many disciplines, from behavioural ecology to comparative biology and sociobiology. The two major approaches used to study social behaviour involve either the mechanism of behaviour - where it has come from and how it has evolved, or the function of the behaviour studied. With guest articles from leaders in the field, theoretical foundations along with recent advances are presented to give a truly multidisciplinary overview of social behaviour, for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. Topics include aggression, communication, group living, sexual behaviour and co-operative breeding. With examples ranging from bacteria to social mammals and humans, a variety of research tools are used, including candidate gene approaches, quantitative genetics, neuro-endocrine studies, cost-benefit and phylogenetic analyses and evolutionary game theory"--Provided by publisher