The Evolution of Social Wasps
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2007
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-530797-9 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-530797-9 (ISBN)
The Evolution of Social Wasps resolves one of evolution's most intriguing problems - the origin of insect sociality. It also challenges conceptual approaches that have dominated three decades of social behaviour research.
Social behavior occurs in some of the smallest animals as well as some the largest, and the transition from solitary life to sociality is an unsolved evolutionary mystery. In The Evolution of Social Wasps, James H. Hunt examines social behavior in a single lineage of insects, wasps of the family Vespidae. He presents empirical knowledge of social wasps from two approaches, one that focuses on phylogeny and life history and one that focuses on individual
ontogeny, colony development, and population dynamics. He also provides an extensive summary of the existing literature while demonstrating how it can be clouded by theory. Hunt's fresh approach to the
conflicting literature on sociality highlights how oft repeated models can become fixed in the thinking of the scientific community. Instead, Hunt presents a mechanistic scenario for the evolution of sociality in wasps that changes our perspective on kin selection, the paradigm that has dominated thinking about social evolution since the 1970s. This innovative new model integrates life history, nutrition, fitness and ecology in which social insect biologists will find a rich storehouse of
ideas and information, and behavioral ecologists will find a bracing challenge to long accepted models. Engagingly written, bold, and provocative, The Evolution of Social Wasps marks a milestone in our
understanding of one of lifes major evolutionary transitions - the origin of social behavior.
Social behavior occurs in some of the smallest animals as well as some the largest, and the transition from solitary life to sociality is an unsolved evolutionary mystery. In The Evolution of Social Wasps, James H. Hunt examines social behavior in a single lineage of insects, wasps of the family Vespidae. He presents empirical knowledge of social wasps from two approaches, one that focuses on phylogeny and life history and one that focuses on individual
ontogeny, colony development, and population dynamics. He also provides an extensive summary of the existing literature while demonstrating how it can be clouded by theory. Hunt's fresh approach to the
conflicting literature on sociality highlights how oft repeated models can become fixed in the thinking of the scientific community. Instead, Hunt presents a mechanistic scenario for the evolution of sociality in wasps that changes our perspective on kin selection, the paradigm that has dominated thinking about social evolution since the 1970s. This innovative new model integrates life history, nutrition, fitness and ecology in which social insect biologists will find a rich storehouse of
ideas and information, and behavioral ecologists will find a bracing challenge to long accepted models. Engagingly written, bold, and provocative, The Evolution of Social Wasps marks a milestone in our
understanding of one of lifes major evolutionary transitions - the origin of social behavior.
Part One - History
Chapter One: Plant Feeders and Parasitoids
Chapter Two: Pollen Wasps, Potter Wasps, and Hover Wasps
Chapter Three: Paper Wasps and Vespines
Chapter Four: The Historical Scenario of Social Evolution
Part Two - Dynamics
Chapter Five: Individuals
Chapter Six: Colonies
Chapter Seven: Populations
Chapter Eight: The Dynamic Scenario of Social Evolution
Part Three - Paradigm Lost - And Found?
Chapter Nine: Kin Selection
Chapter Ten: Behavioral Ecology
Chapter Eleven: A Post-Modern Synthesis
Conclusion
References
| Zusatzinfo | 13 halftones, 69 line illus. |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 399 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-530797-6 / 0195307976 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-530797-9 / 9780195307979 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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