Evolution of Society (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society series B)

Front Cover
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Copyright......Page 2
Contents......Page 3
The evolution of society......Page 5
References......Page 9
Introduction......Page 12
Current work on inclusive fitness......Page 13
Inclusive fitness contrasted  with kin selection......Page 14
Discussion......Page 16
References......Page 17
Competitors, simple groups, societies and organisms......Page 19
Groups of cells......Page 20
Groups of genes in cells......Page 22
Groups of multi-cellular individuals......Page 23
Multi-species groups......Page 25
Discussion......Page 27
References......Page 28
Introduction......Page 32
Population dynamics  of social traits......Page 33
A cheat that does not produce  exoproducts (public goods)......Page 34
Trojan horse cheats......Page 35
Bacteriocinogen cheat invasion......Page 37
Discussion......Page 39
References......Page 41
Introduction......Page 44
Kinship and the origin of eusociality......Page 45
To reproduce or to help others reproduce?......Page 46
Comparative tests of the effects of kinship and coercion......Page 48
Application of inclusive fitness theory......Page 49
Enforced altruism and acquiescence......Page 50
Creating a better society: building an organism made of many individuals......Page 51
References......Page 52
Natural history of primitively  eusocial wasps......Page 55
Consequences of queuing: individual variation in behaviour......Page 56
What behavioural mechanisms  stabilize the queue?......Page 57
Discussion......Page 60
References......Page 61
Introduction......Page 64
Lifetime sexual commitment of parents......Page 65
Evidence for ancestral lifetime monogamy in eusocial lineages......Page 66
Implications......Page 69
Predictions of the monogamy window hypothesis......Page 72
Perspectives......Page 73
References......Page 76
Introduction......Page 81
Genetic architecture, heterozygote advantage, pleiotropy and adaptation......Page 82
Genes, cooperation and manipulation......Page 83
Genes, Division of labour and phenotypic plasticity......Page 84
Conclusion......Page 85
References......Page 86
Introduction......Page 89
Evolutionary routes to cooperative breeding......Page 90
Ecological constraints and dispersal......Page 92
Population viscosity......Page 93
Conclusion......Page 94
Appendix A......Page 95
References......Page 96
Introduction......Page 100
The evolution of mammalian polygyny......Page 101
Reproductive suppression......Page 102
Subordinate strategies......Page 104
Adaptations of males in high-skew societies......Page 106
Discussion......Page 108
References......Page 109
Introduction......Page 114
Phenotypic cues......Page 115
Non-gregarious primates......Page 116
Species with female philopatry......Page 117
Paternal care......Page 119
Do primates conform to hamilton’s rule?......Page 120
Summary and conclusions......Page 121
References......Page 122
Introduction......Page 126
Reciprocal altruism......Page 127
Spite......Page 132
Conclusions......Page 134
References......Page 135
Basal hominin sociality......Page 138
Key transitions in human evolution......Page 139
Transition 2: tools and meat......Page 144
Transition 4: social brains and technologies......Page 145
Transition 5: ecological intensification......Page 146
Evolution of human society:  trends and principles......Page 147
References......Page 149
Introduction......Page 151
Rapid cultural adaptation potentiates group selection......Page 152
Multiple equilibria plus rapid adaptation=stable variation among groups......Page 153
Stable variation among groups leads to group selection......Page 154
Natural selection in culturally evolved social environments may have favoured new tribal social instincts......Page 156
References......Page 157
The social organization of foragers in relation to other primates......Page 159
Pair-bonding and the sexual division of labour......Page 160
Evolved modal human social organization......Page 162
Dominance in production......Page 163
Complementarity......Page 164
Dominance in production......Page 165
Dominance in production......Page 166
Jane Lancaster contributed significantly to the development of many of the ideas in this paper. Thanks also to Sam Bowles, Jim Boone, Paul Seabright, Ann Caldwell, Robert Foley and Monique Borgerhoff Mulder for helpful discussions and feedback, to Jeff Winking for the preparation of Tsimane data and to Tim Clutton-Brock for organizing the Royal Society discussion meeting. H.K., P.H. and M.G. were supported by the National Science Foundation (BCS-0422690) and the National Institute on Ageing (R01AG024119-01). P.H. received additional support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute through the Program in Interdisciplinary Biological and Biomedical Sciences at UNM.......Page 167
References......Page 168
Trust......Page 170
Credible promises......Page 171
Incentives to keep promises......Page 172
Long-term relationships......Page 173
More dark matter: exploitation in long-term relationships......Page 175
International cooperation......Page 176
References......Page 177