Cooperation theory of cooperative breeding

Skubic, Eva

doi:10.1016/j.beproc.2006.12.012

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“…For Skubic,29 'Cooperative breeding is the joint raising of offspring by two or more individuals, where at least one of them is not the genetic parent of the young'. In this article, the researcher made an important contribution to the understanding of the relationships between cooperation, altruism and reciprocal altruism.…”

Section: Cleaner Fish Cooperationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…An additional contribution to the field was provided by a study conducted by Skubic,29 which looked at the multidimensionality of the cooperative behaviour and the dependent state characteristic of the cooperative behaviour; for instance, the permanence of a grown adult in a cooperative breeding system could depend on factors such as its ability to survive out of the system as an individual and, once a certain level of ability is reached, the cooperative behaviour could end.…”

Section: Cleaner Fish Cooperationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Lessons from collaborative governance and sociobiology theories for reinforcing sustained cooperation: a government food security case study

Montoya

González

2015

Public Health

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Section: Cleaner Fish Cooperationmentioning

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Section: Cleaner Fish Cooperationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Lessons from collaborative governance and sociobiology theories for reinforcing sustained cooperation: a government food security case study

Montoya

González

2015

Public Health

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“…Market conditions can thus lead to shifts in the payoff matrix. Skubic (2007) highlighted that helping and other behaviours are state dependent. Consequently, the 'price' a helper will pay for group membership at any given point of time depends on the helpers' and breeders' current state, but the value of help will also change dynamically over time.…”

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“…It is related to kin selection because, ultimately, both rely on positive assortment of co-operators (Hamilton, 1975;Hamilton and Taborsky, 2005a;Lehmann and Keller, 2006). Both Skubic (2007) and Taborsky (2007) criticized our omission of generalized reciprocity, but unfortunately neither of both commenters discussed how generalized reciprocity could be acting in cooperative breeders. As interactions in cooperative breeders often take place between series of different individuals (i.e.…”

Section: Generalized Reciprocitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Some of the first authors for comments are also, or primarily, interested in cooperation theory (Connor, 2007;Hamilton, 2007;Kokko, 2007;Noë, 2007;Roberts and Sherratt, 2007;Sachs and Rubenstein, 2007;Skubic, 2007), but most commentaries were provided by empiricists in the field of cooperation, most of them working on cooperatively breeding species. These authors covered much of the broad spectrum of cooperatively breeding animal taxa ranging from social insects (Field and Cant, 2007;Korb and Heinze, 2007), fishes (Buston and Balshine, 2007;Hamilton, 2007;Skubic, 2007;Taborsky, 2007), birds (Berg and Williams, 2007;Cockburn, 2007;Covas et al, 2007;Doerr et al, 2007;Ekman, 2007;Hatchwell, 2007;Komdeur, 2007;Wright, 2007) to mammals (Connor, 2007;Gilchrist, 2007) including primates (Noë, 2007;Snowdon and Cronin, 2007) and humans (Kramer, 2007). We hope this joint effort will also contribute to close the prevailing gap between research on invertebrate and vertebrate cooperative breeding and foster communication between the fields.…”

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On the further integration of cooperative breeding and cooperation theory

Bergmüller

Russell

Johnstone

et al. 2007

Behavioural Processes

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We present a synopsis about the commentaries to the target article "Integrating cooperative breeding into theoretical concepts of cooperation", in which we attempted to integrate general mechanisms to explain cooperative behaviour among unrelated individuals with classic concepts to explain helping behaviour in cooperative breeders that do not invoke kin-based benefits. Here we (1) summarize the positions of the commentators concerning the main issues we raised in the target article and discuss important criticisms and extensions. (2) We relate our target article to some recent reviews on the evolution of cooperation and, (3) clarify how we use terminology with regard to cooperation and cooperative behaviour. (4) We discuss several aspects that were raised with respect to cooperative interactions including by-product mutualism, generalised reciprocity and multi-level selection and, (5) examine the alternatives to our classification scheme as proposed by some commentaries. (6) Finally, we highlight several aspects that might hinder the application of game theoretical mechanisms of cooperation in cooperatively breeding systems. Although there is broad agreement that cooperative breeding theory should be integrated within the more general concepts of cooperation, there is some debate about how this may be achieved. We conclude that the contributions in this special issue provide a fruitful first step and ample suggestions for future directions with regard to a more unified framework of cooperation in cooperative breeders.

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Inequity aversion is observed in common marmosets but not in marmoset models of autism induced by prenatal exposure to valproic acid

Yasue

Nakagami

Nakagaki

et al. 2018

Behavioural Brain Research

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Humans and various nonhuman primates respond negatively to inequity not in their favor (i.e., inequity aversion), when inequity between two individuals is introduced. Common marmosets, a highly prosocial species, further discriminated between human actors who reciprocated in social exchanges, and those who did not. Conversely, marmoset models of autism, induced via prenatal exposure to valproic acid (VPA marmosets), did not discriminate. Interestingly, previous studies of inequity aversion in marmosets have produced negative results, or were limited to males. Recent studies suggest that inequity aversion is highly influenced by the tasks employed. Here we show inequity aversion in both male and female marmosets using a novel task which required a relatively long duration of response. Marmosets were required to hold a spoon for 2 s to receive a reward. Marmosets successfully performed the task when they observed an unfamiliar conspecific partner obtaining the same reward (equity test). However, when they witnessed the partner receiving a more attractive reward for equal effort (inequity test), unexposed marmosets, which were not exposed to either valproic acid or saline during the fetal period refused to respond. This inequity aversion was not observed in unexposed marmosets when the partner was absent.　In contrast, marmosets with fetal exposure to valproic acid (VPA marmosets) successfully executed the task irrespective of their partners' reward conditions. As prenatal exposure to valproic acid is a well-known procedure to induce autism spectrum disorder (ASD)-like behaviors in rodents, we propose that VPA marmosets failed to show inequity aversion due to weak social motivation or interest towards others.

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Cooperation theory of cooperative breeding

Cited by 3 publications

References 64 publications

Lessons from collaborative governance and sociobiology theories for reinforcing sustained cooperation: a government food security case study

Lessons from collaborative governance and sociobiology theories for reinforcing sustained cooperation: a government food security case study

On the further integration of cooperative breeding and cooperation theory

Inequity aversion is observed in common marmosets but not in marmoset models of autism induced by prenatal exposure to valproic acid

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