The evolution of parental care/ (Record no. 179997)
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| Transcribing agency | CUS |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 591.56 |
| Item number | CLU/E |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Clutton-brock,T.H. |
| 245 #4 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The evolution of parental care/ |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | T.H. Clutton-brock |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | New Jersey: |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Princeton university press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 1991. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 352 p. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | <br/>Parental Care and Competition for Mates<br/>1.1 Parental Care and Sexual Selection 3<br/>1.2 Parental Care And Competition for Mates 5<br/>1.3 The Evolution of Parental Care 7<br/>1.4 Definitions of Parental Care and Parental<br/>Investment 8<br/>Forms of Parental Care<br/>2.1 Introduction 13<br/>2.2 Preparation of Nests, Burrows, or<br/>Territories 13<br/>2.3<br/>Production of Gametes 14<br/>2.4 Care of Eggs 15<br/>2.5 Care of Young without Provisioning from<br/>Sources outside the Egg<br/>Provisioning Young before Hatching or Birth<br/>Provisioning Young after Hatching or Birth<br/>2.8 Care of Offspring after Nutritional<br/>Independence<br/>Social Assistance to Mature Offspring<br/>Summary<br/>The Costs of Breeding<br/>Introduction 31<br/>3.2 Parental Expenditure 32<br/>Correlations between Components<br/>of Fitness 34<br/>3.4 The Limitations of Phenotypic<br/>Correlations<br/>3.5 Experimental Manipulation of Parental<br/>Expenditure<br/>Negative Genetic Correlations between<br/>Fitness Components 43<br/>Propagule Size<br/>vlii - CONTENTS<br/>4.1 Introduction 49<br/>4.2 How Large Should Propagules Be? 49<br/>4.3 How Much Time Should Be Spent<br/>in the Egg? 54<br/>4.4 Constraints on Propagule Size 57<br/>4.5 Variation In Propagule Size 61<br/>4.6 Egg Size and Parental Care 65<br/>4.7 Is There a Single Optimal Propagule Size<br/>or an Optimal Range of Variation? 66<br/>4.8 Summary 68<br/>Viviparity<br/>5.1<br/>Introduction<br/>5.2<br/>Viviparity among Invertebrates<br/>5.3<br/>Viviparity In Fish<br/>5.4<br/>Viviparity in Amphibia<br/>5.5 Viviparity in Reptiles<br/>5.6 On the Absence of Viviparity in Birds<br/>5.7<br/>Viviparity in Mammals<br/>6 Incubation, Gestation, and Lactation<br/>6.1 Introduction 85<br/>6.2 Body Size and the Duration of<br/>Development Periods 88<br/>6.3 Incubation 89<br/>6.4 Gestation and Age at Weaning 90<br/>6.5 Lactation 92<br/>6.6 Milk Composition 94<br/>6.7 Summary 99<br/>7 Parental Care in Ectotherms<br/>7.1 Introduction<br/>7.2<br/>The Evolution of Parental Care by<br/>Males and Females<br/>7.3<br/>The Maintenance of Parental Care by<br/>Males and Females<br/>7.4<br/>Parental Care In Invertebrates<br/>7.5<br/>Parental Care in Fish<br/>Parental Care in Amphibia<br/>Parental Care in Reptiles<br/>Summary<br/>Parental Care in Birds and Mammals<br/>8.1 Parental Care and Breeding Systems in<br/>Birds and Mammals 131<br/>8.2 Models of Parental Care 140<br/>8.3 Why Do Males Help in Biparental<br/>Species? 140<br/>8.4 Why Don't Males Always Assist with<br/>Parental Care?<br/>145<br/>8.5 Why Do Males Agree to Being the Only<br/>Care-giver in Some Monogamous Species? 146<br/>8.6 Why Do Males Agree to Polyandry? 147<br/>8.7 Why Are Males Responsible for All Care<br/>in Some Polygynous Birds? 150<br/>8.8 Summary 151<br/>Parental Tactics 1: Variation in Care in<br/>Relation to Benefits<br/>9.1 Introduction 155<br/>9.2 Parental Care and Parent-Offspring<br/>Relatedness 157<br/>9.3 Parental Care and Brood Size 158<br/>9.4 Parental Care and Offspring Age 161<br/>9.5 Parental Care and Offspring Quality 164<br/>9.6 Brood Reduction 165<br/>9.7 Brood Desertion 170<br/>9.8 Summary 172<br/>Parental Tactics 2: Variation in Care in<br/>Relation to Costs<br/>10.1 Introduction 175<br/>10.2 Parental Investment and Resource<br/>Availability 175<br/>10.3 Reduced Reproductive Success in Young<br/>Breeders: Restraint or Constraint? 176<br/>10.4 Reproductive Value and Terminal<br/>Investment 178<br/>10.5 Parental Investment by Males and<br/>Access To Mating Partners 182<br/>10.6 Parental Investment and Conflicts of<br/>Interest between Care-givers 183<br/>10.7 Parental Decision Rules 188<br/>10.8 Summary 190<br/>Parent-Offspring Conflict<br/>11.1 Introduction 193<br/>12<br/>X • CONTENTS<br/>11.2 Parent-Offspring Conflict in Theory 193<br/>11.3 Parent-Offspring Conflict in Practice:<br/>Predictions 201<br/>11.4 Summary 206<br/>Parental Investment in Sons and<br/>Daughters<br/>12.1 Introduction 209<br/>12.2 Does Parental Expenditure Have a Greater<br/>Effect on Fitness in Males or Females? 209<br/>12.3 Parental Expenditure and Sex Differences<br/>in Early Growth 213<br/>12.4 Energy Expenditure on Sons and<br/>Daughters 215<br/>12.5 Reproductive Costs of Sons and<br/>Daughters 218<br/>12.6 Sex Allocation or Differential Extraction? 221<br/>12.7 Sex Differences in Parental Investment<br/>and the Population Sex Ratio 223<br/>12.8 Summary 226<br/>13 Sex Ratios and Differential Juvenile<br/>Mortality<br/>13.1 Introduction 229<br/>13.2 Sex Ratio Variation at Hatching or Birth 232<br/>13.3 Sex Differences in Juvenile Mortality 242<br/>13.4 Summary 252<br/>14 Conclusions<br/>14.1 Introduction 255<br/>14.2 What Are the Benefits and Costs of<br/>Parental Care? 255<br/>14.3 Why Does the Extent of Parental Care<br/>Vary so Widely among Species? 257<br/>14.4 why Do Only Females Care for Eggs and<br/>Young in Some Species. Only Males in<br/>Others, and Both Parents in a Few? 258<br/>14.5 To What Extent Is Parental Care Adjusted<br/>to Variation in Its Benefits to Offspring<br/>and Its Costs to Parents? 261<br/>14.6 How Do Parents Divide Their Investment<br/>between Sons and Daughters? 262<br/>14.7 Prospects 263<br/> |
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