Matthew H. Nitecki / Jennifer A. Kitchell (eds.)

Evolution of Animal Behavior

Paleontological and Field Approaches
Herausgeber: Nitecki, Matthew H.; Kitchell, Jennifer A.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This symposium volume highlights current research in the general field of animal behaviour. The contributors have focused on a series of studies confronting wide-ranging issues: sexual selection and mate choice; differential parental investment; apparent altruism and cooperative behaviour; and the relevance of phylogenetic constraints and historical information. The volume will appeal to evolutionary biologists, behavioural ecologists, palaeontologists, and systematic zoologists, as well as graduate students in these areas.

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This volume highlights current research in the field of animal behavior, with an emphasis on evolutionary perspectives. The contributors represent paleontological, field, and experimental approaches. The volume will be of special interest to evolutionary biologists, behavioral ecologists, and paleontologists.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 1986
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 443g
• ISBN-13: 9780195040067
• ISBN-10: 0195040066
• Artikelnr.: 21013411

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION; Jennifer A Kitchell & Matthew H Nitecki: Evolution and
behaviour; HISTORICAL APPROACHES TO THE EVOLUTION OF BEHAVIOUR: George V
Lauder: Homology, analogy, and the evolution of behaviour; John H
Ostrom-Peabody: Social and unsocial behaviour in dinosaurs; Adolf
Seilacher: Evolution of behaviour as expressed in marine trace fossils;
Jennifer A Kitchell: The evolution of predator-prey behaviour: Naticid
gastropods and their molluscan prey; FIELD AND EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES TO
THE EVOLUTION OF BEHAVIOUR: Randy Thornhill: Relative parental contribution
of the sexes to their offspring and the operation of sexual selection; John
W Fitzpatrick & Glen E Woolfenden: Demographic routes to cooperative
breeding in some New World jays; Jean Altmann: Parent-offspring
interactions in Arthropoid Primates: an evolutionary perspective; Index.