Cooperative breeding in mammals
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 behaviour. T...
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Cambridge University Press
1997
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- 1 The Study of Mammalian Cooperative Breeding Nancy G. Solomon and Jeffrey A. French 2 The Bioenergetics of Parental Behavior and the Evolution of Alloparental Care in Marmosets and Tamarins Suzette D. Tardif 3 Proximate Regulation of Singular Breeding in Callitrichid Primates Jeffrey A. French 4 Cooperative Breeding, Reproductive Suppression, and Body Mass in Canids Patricia D. Moehlman and Heribert Hofer 5 Hormonal and Experiential Factors in the Expression of Social and Parental Behavior in Canids Cheryl S. Asa 6 Variation in Reproductive Suppression among Dwarf Mongooses: Interplay between Mechanisms and Evolution Scott R. Creel and Peter M. Waser 7 Dynamic Optimization and Cooperative Breeding: An Evaluation of Future Fitness Effects Jeffrey R. Lucas, Scott R. Creel and Peter M. Waser