Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Models of reproductive skew : outside options and the resolution of reproductive conflict / Rufus A. Johnstone and Michael A. Cant -- Reproductive conflict and the evolution of menopause / Michael A. Cant, Rufus A. Johnstone, and Andrew F. Russell -- Reproductive skew in female-dominated mammalian societies / Kay E. Holekamp and Anne L. Engh -- The effects of heterogeneous regimes on reproductive skew in eutherian mammals / Clara B. Jones -- Social skew as a measure of the costs and benefits of group living in marmots / Thea B. Wang, Peter Nonacs, and Daniel T. Blumstein -- Explaining variation in reproductive skew among male langurs : effects of future mating prospects and ecological factors / Reinmar Hager -- The causes and consequences of reproductive skew in male primates / Nobuyuki Kutsukake and Charles L. Nunn -- Sociality and reproductive skew in horses and zebras / Daniel I. Rubenstein and Cassandra M. Nuñez -- Reproductive skew in avian societies / Walter D. Koenig ... [et al.] -- Reproductive skew in cooperative fish groups : virtue and limitations of alternative modeling approaches / Michael Taborsky -- Reproductive skew in primitively eusocial wasps : how useful are current models? / Jeremy Field and Michael A. Cant -- Reproductive skew in female common marmosets : contributions of infanticide and subordinate self-restraint / David H. Abbott, Leslie Digby, and Wendy Saltzman -- Reproductive skew in African mole-rats : behavioral and physiological mechanisms to maintain high skew / Chris G. Faulkes and Nigel C. Bennett -- The causes of physiological suppression in vertebrate societies : a synthesis / Andrew J. Young -- Understanding variation in reproductive skew : directions for future empirical research / Sarah J. Hodge -- On the evolution of reproductive skew : a genetical view / W. Edwin Harris and Reinmar Hager -- Social conflict resolution, life history, and the reconstruction of skew / Bernard J. Crespi.