Behaviour and Evolution
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- Date Published: October 1994
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- isbn: 9780521429238
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This book illustrates how the profound changes in our understanding of evolution have influenced behavioral research. Its chapters span both studies of how behavior itself has evolved, dealing with topics such as comparative studies, the genetics of behavior, speciation, and the evolution of sociality and of intelligence, and also the adaptiveness that this evolution has brought about, with treatment of mating and fighting strategies, and theories of kinship and altruism.
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"...well-written and clearly organized...would be most useful to support upper-division undergraduate or graduate studies...presents a very useful overview of topics that are of interest to all animal biologists." Choice
See more reviews"[Slater and Halliday] have done a nice job of choosing an interesting array of authors and topics, ranging from A. A. Hoffman's treatment of the evolutionary genetics of behavior to R. W. Byrne's summary of the evolution of intelligence....[T]his volume could be a useful tool in preparing the study of behavioral evolution for graduation into mainstream evolutionary biology itself." Scott P. Carroll, Quarterly Review of Biology
"The book is a scholarly yet fascinating description of the principles by which behavior is affected by evolutionary forces and, in turn, feeds back to affect selection pressures....[A] valuable book...which should be required reading for all professionals in evolutionary ecology and all those who hope to enter this field." William Abruzzi, Human Ethology Bulletin
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- Date Published: October 1994
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521429238
- length: 360 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.53kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Behaviour genetics and evolution A. A. Hoffmann
3. Behaviour and speciation R. K. Butlin and M. G. Ritchie
4. The phylogeny of behaviour J. L. Gittleman and D. M. Decker
5. Strategies of behaviour I. F. Harvey
6. Sex and evolution T. R. Halliday
7. Kinship and altruism P. J. B. Slater
8. The evolution of intelligence R. W. Byrne
9. Social structure and evolution P. C. Lee
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