List of contributors -- Introduction: The uphill climb of sociobiology: towards a new synthesis / Tamas Szekely, Allen J. Moore, and Jan Komdeur -- Profile: Undiminished passion / Tim Birkhead -- Pt. I. Foundations -- 1. Nature-nurture interactions / Marla B. Sokolowski and Joel D. Levine -- Profile: Social evolution, sexual intrigue and serendipity / Andrew Cockburn -- 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 huddler'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 Holldobler -- 6. Social evolution theory: a review of methods and approaches / Tom Wenseleers, Andy Gardner, and Kevin R. Foster -- Profile: What's wrong with this picture? / Sarah B. Hrdy -- Pt. 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 we are sometimes social / Manfred Milinski -- 9. Important topics in group living / Jens Krause and Graeme Ruxton -- Profile: A haphazard career / Ronald Noe -- 10. Sexual behaviour: conflict, cooperation and coevolution / Tommaso Pizzari and Russell Bonduriansky -- Profile: In celebration of questions, past, present and future / Geoff A. Parker -- 11. Pair bonds and parental behaviour / Lisa McGraw, Tamas Szekely, and Larry J. Young -- Profile: Mating systems and genetic 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 -- Pt. III. Implications -- 16. Personality and individual social specialization / Denis Reale 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, Tamas Szekely and Jan Komdeur -- Species index -- Subject index
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