Synopses & Reviews
Advances in the Study of Behavior was initiated over 40 years ago to serve the increasing number of scientists engaged in the study of animal behavior. That number is still expanding. This volume makes another important "contribution to the development of the field" by presenting theoretical ideas and research to those studying animal behavior and to their colleagues in neighboring fields.
This volume reflects many of the current themes in animal behavior including the evolution of social behavior, sexual selection and communication. It also reflects controversial topics on which the authors provide interesting, new insights.
Advances in the Study of Behavior is now available online at ScienceDirect — full-text online from volume 30 onwards.
About the Author
Dr. H. Jane Brockmann is professor of zoology at the University of Florida, Gainesville. Her research interests include ethology, behavioral ecology; the evolution and economics of behavior; nesting and mating behavior of horseshoe crabs and solitary wasps; and alternative strategies, conflict evolution of social behavior and sex ratios.Professor Tim Roper has a Personal Chair in Animal Behaviour at the University of Sussex. He has been Secretary of the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour, a Council Member of the International Society for Behavioural Ecology and both European Editor and Executive Editor of Animal Behaviour. His research interest is in the behavioral ecology of social mammals, especially badgers.
Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, U.S.A.
Table of Contents
Contributors
Preface
The Strategic Dynamics of Cooperation in Primate Groups
Joan B. Silk
Coexistence in Female-Bonded Primate Groups
S. Peter Henzi and Louise Barrett
The Evolution of Sociality in Spiders
Yael Lubin and Trine Bilde
Molecular Ecology Reveals the Hidden Complexities of the Seychelles Warbler
Jan Komdeur and David S. Richardson
Mate Choice and Genetic Quality: a Review of the Heterozygosity Theory
Bart Kempenaers
Sexual Conflict and the Evolution of Breeding Systems in Shorebirds
Gavin H. Thomas, Tamás Székely, and John D. Reynolds
Post-copulatory Selection in the Yellow Dung Fly Scathophaga stercoraria (L.) and the Mate-now-choose-later Mechanism of Cryptic Female Choice
Paul I. Ward
The Evolution, Function, and Meaning of Marmot Alarm Communication
Daniel T. Blumstein
The Evolution of Geographic Variation in Bird Songs
Jeffrey Podos and Paige S. Warren