… In red-winged blackbirds, lapses in guarding occur when males leave their territories to forage
(Westneat 1993b); foraging may therefore be sacrificed in order to guard. An experimental …

… Westneat DF (1987a) Extrapair fertilizations in a predominantly monogamous bird:
genetic evidence. Anim Behav 35:877±886 Westneat DF (1987b) Extrapair copulations in a …

… and date in the season interact to affect clutch size (Westneat, Stewart & Hatch, 2009),
and nestling age and brood size interact to affect parental feeding rate (Westneat et al., 2011). …

… random effects, we introduced a higher-level random effect (with ten levels), a lower-level
random effect (with 60 levels) or a crossed random effect (with 30 levels; scenario set D). …

Arising from MA Nowak, CE Tarnita & EO Wilson Nature466, 1057–1062 (2010)10.1038/nature09205
; Nowak et al. reply Nowak et al. argue that inclusive fitness theory has been of …

Using the technique of DNA fingerprinting, we investigated the genetic structure within and
among four wild-caught colonies (n = 50 individuals) of a eusocial mammal, the naked mole-…

Parentage is the proportion of juveniles in a brood that are offspring of potential care givers.
We analyzed how reductions in parentage affect the evolution of parental behavior using a …

Personality (consistent differences between individuals in behavior) and plasticity (changes
within individuals in behavior) are often viewed as separate and opposing phenomena. We …

… The remainder terms ( D, D, D, and D) reflect multivariate skewness and products of variances
and covariances. If, for example, the distributions of M, M, Y, and Y, are multivariate normal…

Evolutionary Behavioral Ecology is intended to be used a text for graduate students and a
sourcebook for professional scientists seeking an understanding of the evolutionary and …