Cooperation Among Animals: An Evolutionary Perspective

Despite the depiction of nature "red in tooth and claw", cooperation is actually widespread in the animal kingdom. Various types of cooperative behaviors have been documented in everything from insects to primates, and in every imaginable ecological scenario. Yet why animals cooperate is still a hotly contested question in literature on evolution and animal behavior.

This book examines the history surrounding the study of cooperation, and proceeds to examine the conceptual, theoretical and emp…