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The Evolution of Social Behavior in Insects and Arachnids » (New Edition)

Book cover image of The Evolution of Social Behavior in Insects and Arachnids by Jae C. Choe

Authors: Jae C. Choe (Editor), Bernard J. Crespi
ISBN-13: 9780521589772, ISBN-10: 0521589770
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: February 2004
Edition: New Edition

Author Biography: Jae C. Choe

Book Synopsis

Comprehensive and unbeatable guide to the evolution of cooperation in insects and arachnids.

	Contributors
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
1	Are behavioral classifications blinders to studying natural variation?	8
2	Life beneath silk walls: a review of the primitively social Embiidina	14
3	Postovulation parental investment and parental care in cockroaches	26
4	The spectrum of eusociality in termites	52
5	Maternal care in the Hemiptera: ancestry, alternatives, and current adaptive value	94
6	Evolution of paternal care in the giant water bugs (Heteroptera: Belostomatidae)	116
7	The evolution of sociality in aphids: a clone's-eye view	150
8	Ecology and evolution of social behavior among Australian gall thrips and their allies	166
9	Interactions among males, females and offspring in bark and ambrosia beetles: the significance of living in tunnels for the evolution of social behavior	181
10	Biparental care and social evolution in burying beetles: lessons from the larder	216
11	Subsocial behavior in Scarabaeinae beetles	237
12	The evolution of social behavior in Passalidae (Coleoptera)	260
13	The evolution of social behavior in the augochlorine sweat bees (Hymenoptera: Halictidae) based on a phylogenetic analysis of the genera	270
14	Demography and sociality in halictine bees (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)	293
15	Behavioral environments of sweat bees (Halictinae) in relation to variability in social organization	316
16	Intrinsic and extrinsic factors associated with social evolution in allodapine bees	333
17	Cooperative breeding in wasps and vertebrates: the role of ecological constraints	347
18	Morphologically 'primitive' ants: comparative review of social characters, and the importance of queen-worker dimorphism	372
19	Social conflict and cooperation among founding queens in ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)	392
20	Social evolution in the Lepidoptera: ecological context and communication in larval societies	407
21	Sociality and kin selection in Acari	443
22	Colonial web-building spiders: balancing the costs and benefits of group-living	458
23	Causes and consequences of cooperation and permanent-sociality in spiders	476
24	Explanation and evolution of social systems	499
	Organism index	525
	Subject index	537