Introduction: the uphill climb of sociology: towards a new synthesis / Tamás Székely, Allen J. Moore and Jan Komdeur
Profile: Undiminished passion / Tim Birkhead
Part I. Foundations: 1. Nature-nurture interactions / Marla B. Sokolowski and Joel D. Levine; Profile: social evolution, sexual intrigue and serendipity / Andrew Cockbun; 2. The quantitative genetics of social behaviour / Bronwyn H. Bleakley, Jason B. Wolf and Allen J. Moore; Profile: mating systems: integrating sexual conflict and ecology / Nicholas B. Davies; 3. Social behaviour and bird-song from a neural and endocrine perspective / Elizabeth Adkins-Regan, Timothy J. DeVoogd and Jordan M. Moore; Profile: In love with Ropalidia marginata: 34 years, and still going strong / Raghavendra Gadagkar; 4. Evolutionary game theory / John M. McNamara and Franz J. Weissing; Profile: The holder's dilemma: a cold shoulder or a warm inner glow / David Haig; 5. Recent advances in comparative methods / Robert P. Freckleton and Mark Pagel; Profile: Multi-component signals in ant communication / Bert Hölldobler; 6. Social evolution theory: a review of methods and approaches / Tom Wenseleers, Andy Gardner and Kevin R. Foster; Profiles: what's wrong with this picture? / Sarah B. Hrdy
Part II. Themes: 7. Aggression: towards an integration of gene, brain and behaviour / Robert Huber and Edward A. Kravitz; Profile: From behavioural observations, to genes, to evolution / Laurent Keller; 8. Social influences on communication signals: from honesty to exploitation / Mark E. Hauber and Marlene Zuk; Profile: reputation can make the world go round, or why are we sometime social / Mangred Milinski; 9. Important topics in group living / Jens Krause and Graeme Ruxton; Profile: a haphazard career / Ronald Noë; 10. Sexual behaviour: conflict, cooperation and co-evolution / Tomasso Pizzari and Russell Bonduriansky; Profile: In celebration of questions, past, present and future / Geoff A. Parker; 11. Pair bonds and parental behaviour / Lisa McGraw, Tamás Székely and Larry J. Young; Profile: mating systems and generic variation / Marion Petrie; 12. Adaptations and constraints in the evolution of delayed dispersal: implications for cooperation / Jan Komdeur and Jan Ekman; Profile: Selections from a life in social selection / David C. Queller; 13. Social behaviour in microorganisms / Kevin R. Foster; Profile: the de novo evolution of cooperation: an unlikely event / Paul B. Rainey; 14. Social environments, social tactics and their fitness consequences in complex mammalian societies / Marion L. East and Heribert Hofer; Profile: evolutionary genetics and social behaviour: changed perspectives on sexual coevolution / Michael G. Ritchie; 15. Social behaviour in humans / Ruth Mace; Profile: genes and social behaviour: from gene to genome to 1000 genomes / Gene E. Robinson
Part III. Implications: 16. Personality and individual social specialisation / Denis Réale and Niels J. Dingemanse; Profile: behavioural ecology: why do I love thee? let me count the reasons / Paul W. Sherman; 17. Molecular and genetic influences on the neural substrate of social cognition in humans / Louise Gallagher and David Skuse; Profile: anonymous (and other)social experience and the evolution of cooperation by reciprocity / Michael Taborsky; 18. Population density, social behaviour and sex allocation / Suzanne H. Alonzo and Ben C. Sheldon; Profile: social theory based on natural selection / Robert Trivers; 19. Social behaviour and speciation / Gerald S. Wilkinson and Leanna M. Birge; Profile: look to the ants / Edward O. Wilson; 20. Social behaviour in conservation / Daniel T. Blumstein; Profile: the handicap principle and social behaviour / Amotz Zahavi; 21. Prospects for research in social behaviour: systems biology meets behaviour / Allen J. Moore, Tamás Székely and Jan Komdeur.
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