Mammal Societies

The book aims to integrate our understanding of mammalian societies into a novel synthesis that is relevant to behavioural ecologists, ecologists, and anthropologists. It adopts a coherent structure that deals initially with the characteristics and strategies of females, before covering those of males, cooperative societies and hominid societies. It reviews our current understanding both of the structure of societies and of the strategies of individuals; it combines coverage of relevant areas of theory with coverage of interspecific comparisons, intraspecific comparisons and experiments; it explores both evolutionary causes of different traits and their ecological consequences; and it integrates research on different groups of mammals with research on primates and humans and attempts to put research on human societies into a broader perspective.

Tim Clutton-Brock is one of the world's leading behavioural ecologists. He is a Director of Research at the Department of Zoology at the University of Cambridge, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1993. He is an ISI Highly Cited researcher, and in 2012 was awarded the Darwin Medal from the Royal Society for his work on the diversity of animal societies and their effects on the evolution of reproductive strategies and the dynamics of populations