Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Evolutionary origins
- 2 Delayed dispersal
- 3 Fitness consequences of helping
- 4 Parental care, load-lightening, and costs
- 5 Mating systems and sexual conflict
- 6 Sex-ratio manipulation
- 7 Physiological ecology
- 8 Endocrinology
- 9 Incest and incest avoidance
- 10 Reproductive skew
- 11 Joint laying systems
- 12 Conservation biology
- 13 Mammals: comparisons and contrasts
- 14 Summary
- Names of bird and mammal species mentioned in the text
- References
- Taxonomic index
- Subject index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Evolutionary origins
- 2 Delayed dispersal
- 3 Fitness consequences of helping
- 4 Parental care, load-lightening, and costs
- 5 Mating systems and sexual conflict
- 6 Sex-ratio manipulation
- 7 Physiological ecology
- 8 Endocrinology
- 9 Incest and incest avoidance
- 10 Reproductive skew
- 11 Joint laying systems
- 12 Conservation biology
- 13 Mammals: comparisons and contrasts
- 14 Summary
- Names of bird and mammal species mentioned in the text
- References
- Taxonomic index
- Subject index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004