Evolution of social behaviour

Author(s)

• Hamilton, W. D.

Bibliographic Information

Evolution of social behaviour

（Narrow roads of gene land : the collected papers of W. D. Hamilton, v. 1）

W.H. Freeman/Spektrum, c1996

• : pbk
• : hbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780716745303

Description

Why is `blood thicker than water'? Are we innately violent or pacific? What is the best sex ratio? Why are plants and animals sexual? Why do we grow old and die? Over what do our chromosomes quarrel? Such questions have motivated the life-work of W. D. Hamilton, widely acknowledged as the most important theoretical biologist of the 20th century. His papers continue to exert an enormous influence and they are now being republished for the first time. Each one is introduced by an autobiographical essay written especially for this collection. This first volume contains all of Hamilton's publications prior to 1981, a set especially relevant to social behaviour, kinship theory, sociobiology, and the notion of `selfish genes'. It includes several of the most read and famous papers of modern biology. A forthcoming volume will be devoted to the second half of Hamilton's life's work, on sex and sexual selection. Narrow Roads of Gene Land will be welcomed by professionals, graduate students, and undergraduates from a variety of disciplines, including evolution, population genetics, animal behaviour, genetics, anthropology, and ecology. The essays are accessible to non-specialists and will fascinate and entertain general readers with an interest in evolution and behaviour.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• 1. Shoulders of giants: The evolution of altruistic behaviour
• 2. Hamilton's rule: The genetical evolution of social behaviour, I and II
• 3. Live now, pay later: The moulding of senescence by natural selection
• 4. Gender and genome: Extraordinary sex ratios
• 5. Spite and Price: Selfish and spiteful behaviour in an evolutionary model
• 6. America: Selection of selfish and altruistic behaviour in some extreme models
• 7. Panic stations: Geometry for the selfish herd
• 8. Sorority avenue: Altruism and related phenomena, mainly in social insects
• 9. Friends, Romans, groups: Innate social aptitudes of man: an approach from evolutionary genetics
• 10. Venus too kind: Gamblers since life began: Barnacle, aphids, elms
• 11. Elm and Australian: Dispersal in stable habitats
• 12. Funeral Feasts: Evolution and diversity under bark
• 13. Discordant insects: Wingless and fighting males in fig wasps and other insects
• 14. Astringent leaves: Low nutritive quality as defence against herbivores
• 15. Advanced arts of exit: Evolutionarily stable dispersal strategies
• Epilogue
• Acknowledgements
• Index

Volume

: hbk ISBN 9780716745518

Description

Why is `blood thicker than water'? Are we innately violent or pacific? What is the best sex ratio? Why are plants and animals sexual? Why do we grow old and die? Over what do our chromosomes quarrel? Such questions have motivated the life-work of W.D. Hamilton, widely acknowledged as the most important theoretical biologist of the 20th century. His papers continue to exert an enormous influence and they are now being republished for the first time. Each one is introduced by an autobiographical essay written especially for this collection. This first volume contains all of Hamilton's publications prior to 1981, a set especially relevant to social behaviour, kinship theory, sociobiology, and the notion of `selfish genes'. It includes several of the most read and famous papers of modern biology. A forthcoming volume will be devoted to the second half of Hamilton's life's work, on sex and sexual selection. Narrow Roads of Gene Land will be welcomed by professionals, graduate students, and undergraduates from a variety of disciplines, including evolution, population genetics, animal behaviour, genetics, anthropology, and ecology. This book is intended for researchers and students in the fields of evolution, ecology, population genetics, animal behaviour, anthropology, and genetics. General readers with an interest in evolution.

Table of Contents

Preface. 1: Shoulders of giants: The evolution of altruistic behaviour. 2: Hamilton's rule: The genetical evolution of social behaviour, I and II. 3: Live now, pay later: The moulding of senescence by natural selection. 4: Gender and genome: Extraordinary sex ratios. 5: Spite and Price: Selfish and spiteful behaviour in an evolutionary model. 6: America: Selection of selfish and altruistic behaviour in some extreme models. 7: Panic stations: Geometry for the selfish herd. 8: Sorority avenue: Altruism and related phenomena, mainly in social insects. 9: Friends, Romans, groups: Innate social aptitudes of man: an approach from evolutionary genetics. 10: Venus too kind: Gamblers since life began: Barnacle, aphids, elms. 11: Elm and Australian: Dispersal in stable habitats. 12: Funeral Feasts: Evolution and diversity under bark. 13: Discordant insects: Wingless and fighting males in fig wasps and other insects. 14: Astringent leaves: Low nutritive quality as defence against herbivores. 15: Advanced arts of exit: Evolutionarily stable dispersal strategies. Epilogue. Acknowledgements. Index

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Details

• NCID: BA28571704
• ISBN:
  • 0716745305
  • 0716745518
• LCCN: 95016280
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 552 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : QL775
  • DC20 : 575.01/62
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Social behavior in animals
  • LCSH : Behavior evolution
  • LCSH : Sexual selection in animals
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA28572467