Helping and Communal Breeding Birds; Ecology and Evolution (Publisher series: Monographs in Behavior and Ecology.)

Brown, Jerram L.

ISBN 10: 0691084483 / ISBN 13: 9780691084480

Published by Princeton University Press, Princeton

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[0-691-08448-3] 1987. (Trade paperback) Near fine. 353pp. Diagrams, tables, graphs, illustrations, notes, bibliography, indices. There is a previous owner's stamp on the front free endpaper. "This work is an overview of the extensive and frequently controversial literature on communally breeding birds developed ince the early 1960s, when students of evolution began to examine sociality as a product of natural selection. Jerram Brown provides original data from his own theoretical and empirical studies and summarizes the wide array of results and interpretations made by others". Book about Avian Studies. Publisher series: Monographs in Behavior and Ecology. (Natural History, Biology, Breeding, Ecology, Evolution, Natural History, Ornithology).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Helping and Communal Breeding Birds; Ecology and Evolution (Publisher series: Monographs in Behavior and Ecology.)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton
• ISBN 10: 0691084483
• ISBN 13: 9780691084480
• Binding: Soft cover
• Seller catalogs:
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An overview of the extensive and frequently controversial literature on communally breeding birds developed since the early 1960s, when students of evolution began to examine sociality as a product of natural selection. Jerram Brown provides original data from his own theoretical and empirical studies and summarizes the wide array of results and interpretations made by others.

Originally published in 1987.

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