The time is ripe to investigate similarities and differences in the course of social evolution in different animals. This book brings together renowned research

Seeking common principles of social evolution in different taxonomic groups, the contributors to this volume discuss eighteen groups of birds and mammals for wh

A comprehensive analysis of the genetic, ecological and phylogenetic aspects of social behaviour, by experts in the field.

Investigates and sets out the common principles of social evolution operating across all taxa and levels of biological organisation.

Darwin famously described special difficulties in explaining social evolution in insects. More than a century later, the evolution of sociality - defined broadl