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Product Description: Social behavior occurs in some of the smallest animals as well as some the largest, and the transition from solitary life to sociality is an unsolved evolutionary mystery. In The Evolution of Social Wasps, James H. Hunt examines social behavior in a single lineage of insects, wasps of the family Vespidae...read more
By Raghavendra Gadagkar (foreword by) and James H. Hunt

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9780195307979 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, March 27, 2007, cover price $73.00 | About this edition: Social behavior occurs in some of the smallest animals as well as some the largest, and the transition from solitary life to sociality is an unsolved evolutionary mystery.

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Product Description: Did you know that Tasmanian hens have two husbands? That cellular slime molds commit suicide? That vampire bats will share food with hungry fellow bats and that hanuman langurs commit infanticide? Why creatures great and small behave in such fascinating and seemingly perplexing ways is explained in this delightful account of the evolutionary foundations of animal social behavior...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780674170551 | Harvard Univ Pr, November 1, 1997, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Introduces the basic concepts of sociobiology while applying kin selection, inclusive fitness, and game theories to explain conflict and cooperation in animal society

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9780674005570 | Harvard Univ Pr, May 15, 2001, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: Did you know that Tasmanian hens have two husbands?

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