Several evolutionary processes influence virulence, the amount of damage a parasite
causes to its host. For example, parasites are favored to exploit their hosts prudently to …

Why do the young of cooperative breeders-species in which more than two individuals help
raise offspring at a single nest-delay dispersal and live in groups? Answering this …

Around 150 million years ago, eusocial termites evolved from within the cockroaches, 50
million years before eusocial Hymenoptera, such as bees and ants, appeared. Here, we …

A comprehensive compendium on the taxonomy and biology of the 3106 living and fossil
species of the world's termites is presented, along with reviews of Isoptera morphology and …

Game theory has been extensively applied to help explain how cooperative behaviour is
promoted in human and animal societies. How do humans and animals establish reciprocity …

Throughout the world people differ in the magnitude with which they value strong family ties
or heightened religiosity. We propose that this cross-cultural variation is a result of a …

The world is complex, but acknowledging its complexity requires an appreciation for the
many roles context plays in shaping natural phenomena. In Unsimple Truths, Sandra …

Social insects so dominate many terrestrial habitats (Wilson 1990) that they can hardly
escape the attention of biologists, but even if they were rare, they would still attract special …

Disclaimer: This book contains characters with diacritics. When the characters can be
represented using the ISO 8859-1 character set (http://www. w3. org/TR/images/latin1. gif) …

In The Black-Tailed Prairie Dog, John L. Hoogland draws on sixteen years of research at
Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota, in the United States to provide this account of …