Evolution of Animal Behavior (eBook, PDF)

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

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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. They focus on a series of studies that confront wide-ranging issues, including sexual selection, mate choice, differential parental investment, apparent altruism, cooperative behavior, and the relevance of phylogenetic constraints and historical information. The volume will be of special interest to evolutionary biologists, behavioral ecologists, and paleontologists.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP eBook
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 1986
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780195364941
• Artikelnr.: 38147697

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.