Selected Readings in Sociobiology   -   Table of Contents

[Note: These are all previously-published works, selected for republication in this volume.]

Introduction

1 Elements of Socialty

    The Genetical Evolution of Social Behaviour. I
    W. D. Hamilton

    The Genetical Evolution of Social Behaviour. II (extract)
    W. D. Hamilton

    Group Selection and Kin Selection
    J. Maynard Smith

    Kin Selection and Reproductive Value
    Manfred Milinski

    The Evolution of Reciprocal Altruism
    Robert L. Trivers

    The Evolution of Social Behavior by Kin Selection (part)
    Mary Jane West-Eberhard

    A Theory of Group Selection
    David Sloan Wilson

    Parent-Offspring Conflict
    Robert L. Trivers

2 Social Insects

    The Evolution of Social Life in Wasps
    Howard E. Evans

    The Evolution of Social Behavior in Bees
    Charles D. Michener

    The Genetical Evolution of Social Behaviour. II (extract)
    W. D. Hamilton

    Haplodiploidy and the Evolution of Social Insects
    Robert L. Trivers and Hope Hare

    Local Mate Competition and Parental Investment in Social Insects
    Richard D. Alexander and Paul W. Sherman

    Sex Ratio of Parental Investment in Colonies of the Social Wasp Polistes fuscatus
    Katherine M. Noonan

    Extrinsic versus Intrinsic Factors in the Evolution of Insect Sociality
    Howard E. Evans

3 Social Higher Vertebrates

    On the Evolution of Mating Systems in Birds and Mammals
    Gordon H. Orians

    Sexual Dimorphism in Mammals: Avian Models and Unanswered Questions
    Katherine Ralls

    Mammalian Social Systems: Structure and Function
    Cathleen R. Cox and Burney J. LeBoeuf

    Alternate Routes to Sociality in Jays - With a Theory for the Evolution of Altruism and Communal Breeding
    Jerram L. Brown

4 Homo sapiens

    Human Territoriality: An Ecological Reassessment
    Rada Dyson-Hudson and Eric Alden Smith

    Inclusive Fitness and Human Family Structure
    Pierre L. van den Berghe and David P. Barash

5 Ramifications

    Sociobiology - Another Biological Determinism
    Sociobiology Study Group of Science for the People

    Academic Vigilantism and the Political Significance of Sociobiology
    Edward O. Wilson

    Social Darwinism Lives! (Should It?)
    Peter H. Klopfer

Index

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