The Evolution of Social Behavior in Insects and Arachnids
Social insects and arachnids exhibit forms of complex behavior that involve cooperation in building a nest, defending against attackers or rearing offspring. This book is a comprehensive, up-to-date guide to sociality and its evolution in a wide range of taxa. In it, leading researchers review the extent of sociality in different insect and arachnid groups, analyze the genetic, ecological and demographic causes of sociality from a comparative perspective, and suggest ways in which the field...
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Comprehensive and unbeatable guide to the evolution of cooperation in insects and arachnids.
ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction11Are behavioral classifications blinders to studying natural variation?82Life beneath silk walls: a review of the primitively social Embiidina143Postovulation parental investment and parental care in cockroaches264The spectrum of eusociality in termites525Maternal care in the Hemiptera: ancestry, alternatives, and current adaptive value946Evolution of paternal care in the giant water bugs (Heteroptera: Belostomatidae)1167The evolution of sociality in aphids: a clone's-eye view1508Ecology and evolution of social behavior among Australian gall thrips and their allies1669Interactions among males, females and offspring in bark and ambrosia beetles: the significance of living in tunnels for the evolution of social behavior18110Biparental care and social evolution in burying beetles: lessons from the larder21611Subsocial behavior in Scarabaeinae beetles23712The evolution of social behavior in Passalidae (Coleoptera)26013The evolution of social behavior in the augochlorine sweat bees (Hymenoptera: Halictidae) based on a phylogenetic analysis of the genera27014Demography and sociality in halictine bees (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)29315Behavioral environments of sweat bees (Halictinae) in relation to variability in social organization31616Intrinsic and extrinsic factors associated with social evolution in allodapine bees33317Cooperative breeding in wasps and vertebrates: the role of ecological constraints34718Morphologically 'primitive' ants: comparative review of social characters, and the importance of queen-worker dimorphism37219Social conflict and cooperation among founding queens in ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)39220Social evolution in the Lepidoptera: ecological context and communication in larval societies40721Sociality and kin selection in Acari44322Colonial web-building spiders: balancing the costs and benefits of group-living45823Causes and consequences of cooperation and permanent-sociality in spiders47624Explanation and evolution of social systems499Organism index525Subject index537
\ From the Publisher"This book is accessible reading for any evolutionary or behavioral biologist. If the Embioptera, Thysanoptera, or Passalidae are unfamiliar taxa to you, so much the better; the authors do an excellent job of placing these taxa in systematic, evolutionary, and ecological contexts, and your appreciation of the social diversity of arthropods will be greatly enhanced. The issues raised by Choe, Crespi, and the authors of the chapters presage continued exciting developments over the next few years in our understanding of social evolution." Michael D. Breed, BioScience\ \
