Behaviour and Evolution
- Date Published: September 1994
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521418584
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Some of the most exciting recent advances in animal behaviour have occurred at the interface between that subject and the study of evolution. This book, written by experts in this area, illustrates how the profound changes in our understanding of evolution have influenced behavioural research. Its chapters span both studies of how behaviour itself has evolved, dealing with topics such as comparative studies, the genetics of behaviour, speciation and the evolution of sociality and of intelligence, and also the adaptiveness which this evolution has brought about, with treatment of mating and fighting strategies, and theories of kinship and altruism.Behaviour and Evolution will be invaluable to senior undergraduate and graduate students of biology and psychology, especially those studying animal behaviour, behavioural ecology, sociobiology, evolution, ecology and environmental biology.
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'The editors and contributors … have lucidly and interestingly represented current work and ideas in this core area of biology and psychology. This text presents clearly a rich sampling of both the details of animal behavior and analyses of its evolutionary processes and patterns … a lucid presentation such as this can illuminate the entire field.' R. Goldthwaite, Systems Research and Behavioral Science
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- Date Published: September 1994
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521418584
- length: 360 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 21 mm
- weight: 0.65kg
- 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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