Breeding Together: Kin Selection and Mutualism in Cooperative Vertebrates

The Evolution of Cooperation

1981 • 20,191 citations

The genetical evolution of social behaviour. I

1964 • 15,639 citations

Bowling alone

2000 • 14,031 citations

The Insect Societies

1971 • 4,665 citations

Behavioural Ecology: An Evolutionary Approach

1992 • 3,875 citations

Inverse density dependence and the Allee effect

1999 • 1,777 citations

Social evolution in ants

1995 • 1,303 citations

The Handicap Principle: A Missing Piece of Darwin's Puzzle

1997 • 1,222 citations

Punishment in animal societies

1995 • 1,007 citations

The Handicap Principle

1997 • 967 citations

EVOLUTION OF HELPING BEHAVIOR IN COOPERATIVELY BREEDING BIRDS

1998 • 785 citations

Evolution of Social Insect Colonies

1996 • 728 citations

Evolution of Social Insect Colonies: Sex Allocation and Kin Selection

1997 • 668 citations

Cooperation Among Animals

1997 • 651 citations

Helping Communal Breeding in Birds

1987 • 633 citations

Why Lions Form Groups: Food is Not Enough

1990 • 623 citations

Kin Selection and Social Insects

1998 • 596 citations

The evolution of cooperative breeding through group augmentation

2001 • 560 citations

Competitive altruism: from reciprocity to the handicap principle

1998 • 512 citations

The Origins of Virtue

1996 • 478 citations

Selfish Sentinels in Cooperative Mammals

1999 • 427 citations

Complex Cooperative Strategies in Group-Territorial African Lions

1995 • 412 citations

Predation, group size and mortality in a cooperative mongoose, Suricata suricatta

1999 • 380 citations

The Evolution of Group Territorial Behavior and Cooperative Breeding

1978 • 345 citations

Investment and relatedness: A cost/benefit analysis of breeding and helping in the pied kingfisher (Ceryle rudis)

1984 • 328 citations

Testing Hamilton's rule with competition between relatives

2001 • 300 citations

Paying to stay or paying to breed? Field evidence for direct benefits of helping behavior in a cooperatively breeding fish

1998 • 287 citations

Cooperation in male lions: kinship, reciprocity or mutualism?

1995 • 252 citations

The role of kinship in helping decisions among white-fronted bee-eaters

1988 • 242 citations

Effects of Helpers on Juvenile Development and Survival in Meerkats

2001 • 237 citations

Experimental evidence for kin-biased helping in a cooperatively breeding vertebrate

2001 • 221 citations

Cooperation among unrelated individuals: the ant foundress case

1999 • 220 citations

The cost of helping

1999 • 214 citations

Infanticide and expulsion of females in a cooperative mammal

1998 • 213 citations

A veto game played by baboons: a challenge to the use of the Prisoner's Dilemma as a paradigm for reciprocity and cooperation

1990 • 212 citations

Individual contributions to babysitting in a cooperative mongoose,Suricata suricatta

2000 • 207 citations

Influence of age on reproductive performance in the Seychelles warbler

1996 • 194 citations

Dominant males punish helpers for temporary defection in superb fairy-wrens

1993 • 193 citations

Pursuing the big questions about interspecific mutualism: a review of theoretical approaches

2000 • 193 citations

Queen activation of lazy workers in colonies of the eusocial naked mole-rat

1992 • 169 citations

Fairy-wren helpers often care for young to which they are unrelated

1995 • 166 citations

Mutualism Among Safe, Selfish Sentinels: A Dynamic Game

1997 • 151 citations

Behavioral Heterochrony and the Evolution of Birds' Helping at the Nest: An Unselected Consequences of Communal Breeding?

1989 • 146 citations

Response of foraging group members to sentinel calls in suricates, Suricata suricatta

1999 • 137 citations

Impact of natural enemies on obligately cooperative breeders

2000 • 132 citations

Influence of helping and breeding experience on reproductive performance in the Seychelles warbler: a translocation experiment

1996 • 127 citations

Subordinate males are more likely to help if unrelated to the breeding female in cooperatively breeding white-browed scrubwrens

1997 • 115 citations

Facultative Helping Does Not Influence Reproductive Success or Survival in Cooperatively Breeding White-Browed Scrubwrens

1997 • 101 citations

Kidnapping and reciprocity in cooperatively breeding white-winged choughs

1991 • 85 citations

State-dependent sentinels: an experimental study in the Arabian babbler

2001 • 80 citations

The African wild dog

2002 • 64 citations

Reproductive conflicts in cooperative associations of fire ant queens (Solenopsis invicta)

1996 • 53 citations

Does juvenile helping enhance breeder reproductive success?

1989 • 49 citations

How to measure inclusive fitness

1990 • 43 citations

Colony life history and demography of a swarm-founding social wasp

1997 • 37 citations

Annotated bibliography on The Evolution of Cooperation

1994 • 28 citations

Another interpretation of communal breeding in green woodhoopoes (reply)

1979 • 6 citations