Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- 1 The Study of Mammalian Cooperative Breeding
- 2 The Bioenergetics of Parental Behavior and the Evolution of Alloparental Care in Marmosets and Tamarins
- 3 Proximate Regulation of Singular Breeding in Callitrichid Primates
- 4 Cooperative Breeding, Reproductive Suppression, and Body Mass in Canids
- 5 Hormonal and Experiential Factors in the Expression of Social and Parental Behavior in Canids
- 6 Variation in Reproductive Suppression among Dwarf Mongooses: Interplay between Mechanisms and Evolution
- 7 Dynamic Optimization and Cooperative Breeding: An Evaluation of Future Fitness Effects
- 8 Examination of Alternative Hypotheses for Cooperative Breeding in Rodents
- 9 The Psychobiological Basis of Cooperative Breeding in Rodents
- 10 Cooperative Breeding in Naked Mole-Rats: Implications for Vertebrate and Invertebrate Sociality
- 11 The Physiology of a Reproductive Dictatorship: Regulation of Male and Female Reproduction by a Single Breeding Female in Colonies of Naked Mole-Rats
- 12 Factors Influencing the Occurrence of Communal Care in Plural Breeding Mammals
- 13 A Bird's-Eye View of Mammalian Cooperative Breeding
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 October 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- 1 The Study of Mammalian Cooperative Breeding
- 2 The Bioenergetics of Parental Behavior and the Evolution of Alloparental Care in Marmosets and Tamarins
- 3 Proximate Regulation of Singular Breeding in Callitrichid Primates
- 4 Cooperative Breeding, Reproductive Suppression, and Body Mass in Canids
- 5 Hormonal and Experiential Factors in the Expression of Social and Parental Behavior in Canids
- 6 Variation in Reproductive Suppression among Dwarf Mongooses: Interplay between Mechanisms and Evolution
- 7 Dynamic Optimization and Cooperative Breeding: An Evaluation of Future Fitness Effects
- 8 Examination of Alternative Hypotheses for Cooperative Breeding in Rodents
- 9 The Psychobiological Basis of Cooperative Breeding in Rodents
- 10 Cooperative Breeding in Naked Mole-Rats: Implications for Vertebrate and Invertebrate Sociality
- 11 The Physiology of a Reproductive Dictatorship: Regulation of Male and Female Reproduction by a Single Breeding Female in Colonies of Naked Mole-Rats
- 12 Factors Influencing the Occurrence of Communal Care in Plural Breeding Mammals
- 13 A Bird's-Eye View of Mammalian Cooperative Breeding
- Index
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- Cooperative Breeding in Mammals , pp. i - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1997