Evolution of Animal Behavior: Paleontological and Field Approaches

ISBN-13: 9780195040067 / Angielski / Twarda / 1986 / 184 str.

Matthew H. Nitecki; Jennifer A. Kitchell

Opis

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.

Recenzje

Claus NIELSEN writes that his book is "not meant as an alternative to the several recent textbooks of systematic zoology, but as a supplement ...". Compared to these, Claus NIELSEN provides more original illustrations, a more elaborate discussion of alternative hypotheses, more intriguing phylogenetic arguments, and definitely easier reading.

Spis treści

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.