Kin Recognition (Hardcover)

Contributors; Preface; 1. Introduction P. G. Hepper; 2. The correlation between kinship and behaviour in non-human primates I. S. Bernstein; 3. Cooperation and reciprocity in birds and mammals J. D. Ligon; 4. Kinship and fellowship in ants and social wasps P. Jaisson; 5. Successes and failures of parent-offspring recognition in animals M. D. Beecher; 6. Kinship, kin discrimination and mate choice criteria C. J. Barnard and P. G. M. Aldous; 7. Genetic components of kin recognition in mammals E. A. Boyse; 8. Kin recognition in amphibians B. Waldman; 9. Kin recognition cues of vertebrates Z. T. Halpin; 10. Recognizing kin: ontogeny and classification P. G. Hepper; 11. Parental states as mechanisms for kinship recognition and deception about relatedness R. W. Elwood; 12. Fetal learning: implications for the development of kin recognition S. R. Robinson and W. P. Smotherman; 13. Information processing and storage during filial imprinting M. H. Johnson; 14. The honey bee as a model kin recognition system W. M. Getz; 15. Mutual mother-infant recognition in humans R. H. Porter; References; Index.