Courtship: An Ethological Study

ISBN-13: 9780202309118 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 228 str.

Margaret Bastock

Opis

This concise but thorough study of courtship behavior in fish, birds, and arthropods is the first rigorous examination of the evolutionary origins and mechanisms of courtship and its contribution to biological success. Demonstrating the fruitfulness of an empirically based, inductive approach to understanding courtship, the book also explains clearly how principles of modern evolutionary theory can be successfully employed in studying behavior.

Spis treści

Introduction The question of function - The question of complexity - Natural selection and sexual selection - Courtship and conflict - Problems of inheritance - Problems of mechanism PART ONE: SOME DESCRIPTIONS I. Fish 2. Birds 3* Arthropods 4 cockroach PART TWO: EVOLUTION 4. Introduction 5. Natural Selection and Sexual Selection 6. The Evolution of Courtship 7. Genetics PART THREE: MECHANISMS 8. The Sexual Control System 9. Hormonal Mechanisms 10. Nervous Mechanisms

O autorze

Margaret Bastock