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Evolution of Animal Behavior: Paleontological and Field Approaches

by Matthew H Nitecki

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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. 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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Highlighting current research in the general field of animal behaviour, the contributors to this book focus on a selected series of studies that confront wide-ranging issues.

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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.
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Table of Contents

I: Introduction

1. Evolution and Behavior, Jennifer A. Kitchell and Matthew Nitecki

II: Historical Approaches to the Evolution of Behavior

2. Homology, Analogy, and the Evolution of Behavior, George V. Lauder

3. Social and Unsocial Behavior in Dinosaurs, John H. Ostrom

4. Evolution of Behavior as Expressed in Marine Trace Fossils, Adolf Seilacher

5. The Evolution of Predator-Prey Behavior: Naticid Gastropods and Their Molluscan Prey, Jennifer A. Kitchell

III: Field and Experimental Approaches to the Evolution of Behavior

6. Relative Parental Contribution of the Sexes to Their Offspring and the Operation of Sexual Selection, Randy Thornhill

7. Demographic Routes to Cooperative Breeding in some New World Jays, John W. Fitzpatrick and Glen E. Woolfenden

8. Parent-Offspring Interactions in Arthropoid Primates: An Evolutionary Perspective, Jeanne Altmann

Index

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780195040067
Editor:
Nitecki, Matthew H.
Editor:
Kitchell, Jennifer A.
Editor:
Kitchell, Jennifer A.
Editor:
Nitecki, Matthew H.
Author:
null, Jennifer A.
Author:
null, Matthew H.
Author:
Nitecki, Matthew H.
Author:
Kitchell, Jennifer A.
Publisher:
Oxford University Press, USA
Location:
New York :
Subject:
Evolution
Subject:
Animal behavior
Subject:
Life Sciences - Evolution
Subject:
Life Sciences - Zoology - General
Subject:
Life Sciences | Ecology | Animal Behavior
Subject:
Animal behavior -- Evolution -- Congresses.
Subject:
Biology-Zoology
Copyright:
1986
Edition Description:
Bibliography: p. 174-178.
Series Volume:
no. 12
Publication Date:
19860831
Binding:
HARDCOVER
Grade Level:
College/higher education:
Language:
English
Illustrations:
48 illus.
Pages:
184
Dimensions:
9.00x6.00x.63 in. 1.01 lbs.
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