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Animal Signals
ISBN: 9780198526858 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why are animal signals reliable? This is the central problem for evolutionary biologists interested in signals. Of course, not all signals are reliable; but most are, otherwise receivers of signals would ignore them. A number of theoretical answers have been proposed and empirical studies made, but there still remains a considerable amount of confusion. The authors, one a theoretician the other a fieldworker, introduce a sense of order to this chaos. A significant cause of confusion has been the tendency for different researchers to use either the same term with different meanings, or...
Why are animal signals reliable? This is the central problem for evolutionary biologists interested in signals. Of course, not all signals are reliabl...
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379,10 zł |
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The Brains and Lives of Cephalopods
ISBN: 9780198527619 / Angielski / Twarda / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book describes the brains and sense organs of 57 of the 139 genera of the class Cephalopoda, many in great detail, as well as a variety of morphological features. The text is well-illustrated with fully labelled line drawings and photomicrographs. Attention is drawn to the many gaps in our knowledge of these intriguing marine invertebrates with a view to stimulating future research.
The book describes the brains and sense organs of 57 of the 139 genera of the class Cephalopoda, many in great detail, as well as a variety of morphol...
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739,48 zł |
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Rational Animals?
ISBN: 9780198528272 / Angielski / Miękka / 568 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focuses on one of the major debates in science - how closely does mental processing in animals resembles mental processing in humans. This book aims to answer the question of whether and to what extent non-human animals are rational, that is, whether any animal behaviour can be regarded as the result of a rational thought processes.
Focuses on one of the major debates in science - how closely does mental processing in animals resembles mental processing in humans. This book aims t...
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369,16 zł |
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Bird Population Studies: Relevance to Conservation and Management
ISBN: 9780198540823 / Angielski / Miękka / 704 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume reviews our current understanding of avian population dynamics and explores ways in which population studies can contribute to effective conservation and management. Estimation of demographic parameters, the role of mathematical modelling, and the special problems of island populations and seabird populations are discussed. The emphasis throughout is on how bird populations are regulated under various constraints and conditions, including the impact of environmental changes. This book will be useful and interesting to ornithologists, ecologists, wildlife managers, and population...
This volume reviews our current understanding of avian population dynamics and explores ways in which population studies can contribute to effective c...
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344,31 zł |
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Communication Within Animal Cells
ISBN: 9780198547266 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The ordered growth and functioning of animal cells requires the transfer of information from one part of the cell to another. This information comes from a bewildering variety of sources, both within and outside the cell. Hormones, neurotransmitters, growth factors and extracellular metabolites interact with specific receptors on the plasma membrane or in the cytoplasm. Inside the cell, information is relayed by intracellular messengers, including cyclic nucleotides, inositol polyphosphates, diacylglycerol and calcium, and by GTP-binding proteins, protein kinases, and DNA-binding proteins....
The ordered growth and functioning of animal cells requires the transfer of information from one part of the cell to another. This information comes f...
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433,73 zł |
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From Individual Behaviour to Population Ecology
ISBN: 9780198549109 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Population dynamics and animal behavior are two subjects which have developed almost independently, despite widespread acceptance of the idea that they must be related. This book provides a novel framework for combining these two subjects and considers a range of conservation issues. The author suggests how to extrapolate from behavioral interactions to population-level phenomena; each chapter presents a combination of theory and empirical examples, including modelling techniques. Students and researchers in animal behavior, population ecology, and conservation biology will welcome this new...
Population dynamics and animal behavior are two subjects which have developed almost independently, despite widespread acceptance of the idea that the...
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254,78 zł |
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Harriers of the World: Their Behaviour and Ecology
ISBN: 9780198549642 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Harriers are a charismatic group of birds of prey with a worldwide distribution that have long fascinated bird watchers and scientists. Here for the first time the biology of the world's harriers is treated within one over, in readily accessible language. There are detailed comparisons of northern and southern species, descriptions of mating systems and population dynamics life histories, and insights into the selection pressures shaping the birds' life histories. The author addresses such questions as how females choose partners against their apparent self- interest, how they adjust to...
Harriers are a charismatic group of birds of prey with a worldwide distribution that have long fascinated bird watchers and scientists. Here for the f...
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369,16 zł |
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Adaptive Individuals In Evolving Populations : Models And Algorithms
ISBN: 9780201483697 / Angielski / Miękka / 552 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The theory of evolution has been most successful explaining the emergence of new species in terms of their morphological traits. Ethologists teach that behaviors, too, qualify as first-class phenotypic features, but evolutionary accounts of behaviors have been much less satisfactory. In part this is because maturational "programs" transforming genotype to phenotype are "open" to environmental influences affected by behaviors. Further, many organisms are able to continue to modify their behavior, i.e., learn, even after fully mature. This creates an even more complex relationship between the...
The theory of evolution has been most successful explaining the emergence of new species in terms of their morphological traits. Ethologists teach tha...
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377,72 zł |
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Courtship: An Ethological Study
ISBN: 9780202309118 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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.
This concise but thorough study of courtship behavior in fish, birds, and arthropods is the first rigorous examination of the evolutionary...
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230,81 zł |
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Foraging for Survival: Yearling Baboons in Africa
ISBN: 9780226015958 / Angielski / Twarda / 617 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Stuart A. Altmann presents the results of one of the most intensive investigations ever carried out on foraging behavior and its consequences for survival and reproduction.
Stuart A. Altmann presents the results of one of the most intensive investigations ever carried out on foraging behavior and its consequences for surv...
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574,39 zł |
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Baboon Mothers and Infants
ISBN: 9780226016078 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When it was originally released in 1980, Jeanne Altmann's book transformed the study of maternal primate relationships by focusing on motherhood and infancy within a complex ecological and sociological context. Available again with a new foreword by the author, Baboon Mothers and Infants is a classic book that has been, in its own right, a mother to a generation of influential research and will no doubt provide further inspiration.
When it was originally released in 1980, Jeanne Altmann's book transformed the study of maternal primate relationships by focusing on motherhood and i...
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154,64 zł |
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On the Move: How and Why Animals Travel in Groups
ISBN: 9780226063409 / Angielski / Miękka / 822 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Getting from here to there may be simple for one individual. But as any parent, scout leader, or CEO knows, herding a whole troop in one direction is a lot more complicated. Who leads the group? Who decides where the group will travel, and using what information? How do they accomplish these tasks?
"On the Move" addresses these questions, examining the social, cognitive, and ecological processes that underlie patterns and strategies of group travel. Chapters discuss how factors such as group size, resource distribution and availability, the costs of travel, predation, social cohesion, and... Getting from here to there may be simple for one individual. But as any parent, scout leader, or CEO knows, herding a whole troop in one direction is ...
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303,77 zł |
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Cheetahs of the Serengeti Plains: Group Living in an Asocial Species
ISBN: 9780226094342 / Angielski / Miękka / 500 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cheetahs of the Serengeti Plains is the most comprehensive account of carnivore social behavior to date. Synthesizing more than a decade of research in the wild, this book offers a detailed account of the behavior and ecology of cheetahs. Compared with other large cats, and other mammals, cheetahs have an unusual breeding system; whereas lions live in prides and tigers are solitary, some cheetahs live in groups while others live by themselves. Tim Caro explores group and solitary living among cheetahs and discovers that the causes of social behavior vary dramatically, even within a...
Cheetahs of the Serengeti Plains is the most comprehensive account of carnivore social behavior to date. Synthesizing more than a decade of res...
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237,49 zł |
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How Monkeys See the World: Inside the Mind of Another Species
ISBN: 9780226102467 / Angielski / Miękka / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cheney and Seyfarth enter the minds of vervet monkeys and other primates to explore the nature of primate intelligence and the evolution of cognition. "This reviewer had to be restrained from stopping people in the street to urge them to read it: They would learn something of the way science is done, something about how monkeys see their world, and something about themselves, the mental models they inhabit."--Roger Lewin, Washington Post Book World "A fascinating intellectual odyssey and a superb summary of where science stands."--Geoffrey Cowley, Newsweek "A...
Cheney and Seyfarth enter the minds of vervet monkeys and other primates to explore the nature of primate intelligence and the evolution of cognition....
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165,69 zł |
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Headless Males Make Great Lovers: And Other Unusual Natural Histories
ISBN: 9780226122021 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The natural world is filled with diverse--not to mention quirky and odd--animal behaviors. Consider the male praying mantis that continues to mate after being beheaded; the spiders, insects, and birds that offer gifts of food in return for sex; the male hip-pocket frog that carries his own tadpoles; the baby spiders that dine on their mother; the beetle that craves excrement; or the starfish that sheds an arm or two to escape a predator's grasp.
Headless Males Make Great Lovers and Other Unusual Natural Histories celebrates the extraordinary world of animals with essays on curious... The natural world is filled with diverse--not to mention quirky and odd--animal behaviors. Consider the male praying mantis that continues to mate aft...
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77,32 zł |
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Ecology and Evolution in the Tropics: A Herpetological Perspective
ISBN: 9780226156576 / Angielski / Twarda / 584 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In essays that survey the burgeoning field of tropical herpetology, former students and associates pay tribute to Jay Savage's four decades of mentoring. The result is a book unlike any other available in tropical herpetology. Covering a wide array of subjects, this is the first book in more than two decades to broadly review research on tropical amphibians and reptiles. A tribute to Savage and an invaluable addition to herpetological literature, it will be cited for years to come.
In essays that survey the burgeoning field of tropical herpetology, former students and associates pay tribute to Jay Savage's four decades of mentori...
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651,71 zł |
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Cognitive Ecology: The Evolutionary Ecology of Information Processing and Decision Making
ISBN: 9780226169330 / Angielski / Miękka / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How does the environment shape the ways an animal processes information and makes decisions? How do constraints imposed on nervous systems affect an animal's activities? To help answer these questions, "Cognitive Ecology" integrates evolutionary ecology and cognitive science, demonstrating how studies of perception, memory, and learning can deepen our understanding of animal behavior and ecology.
Individual chapters consider such issues as the evolution of learning and its influence on behavior; the effects of cognitive mechanisms on the evolution of signaling behavior; how... How does the environment shape the ways an animal processes information and makes decisions? How do constraints imposed on nervous systems affect an a...
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248,54 zł |
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Animal Minds: Beyond Cognition to Consciousness
ISBN: 9780226308654 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In "Animal Minds, " Donald R. Griffin takes us on a guided tour of the recent explosion of scientific research on animal mentality. Are animals consciously aware of anything, or are they merely living machines, incapable of conscious thoughts or emotional feelings? How can we tell? Such questions have long fascinated Griffin, who has been a pioneer at the forefront of research in animal cognition for decades, and is recognized as one of the leading behavioral ecologists of the twentieth century.
With this new edition of his classic book, which he has completely revised and updated,... In "Animal Minds, " Donald R. Griffin takes us on a guided tour of the recent explosion of scientific research on animal mentality. Are animals consci...
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209,87 zł |
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Mathematical Models of Social Evolution: A Guide for the Perplexed
ISBN: 9780226558264 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the last several decades, mathematical models have become central to the study of social evolution, both in biology and the social sciences. But students in these disciplines often seriously lack the tools to understand them. A primer on behavioral modeling that includes both mathematics and evolutionary theory, "Mathematical Models of Social Evolution "aims to make the student and professional researcher in biology and the social sciences fully conversant in the language of the field. Over the last several decades, mathematical models have become central to the study of social evolution, both in biology and the social sciences. B... |
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441,84 zł |
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Mathematical Models of Social Evolution: A Guide for the Perplexed
ISBN: 9780226558271 / Angielski / Miękka / 425 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the last several decades, mathematical models have become central to the study of social evolution, both in biology and the social sciences. But students in these disciplines often seriously lack the tools to understand them. A primer on behavioral modeling that includes both mathematics and evolutionary theory, "Mathematical Models of Social Evolution" aims to make the student and professional researcher in biology and the social sciences fully conversant in the language of the field. Over the last several decades, mathematical models have become central to the study of social evolution, both in biology and the social sciences. B... |
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165,69 zł |
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