Evolution of animal behavior : paleontological and field approaches / edited by Matthew H. Nitecki and Jennifer A. Kitchell.

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TextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1986.Description: 1 online resource (184 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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1423738101
9781423738107
1601296002
9781601296009
9780195040067
0195040066
1280439440
9781280439445

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Evolution of animal behavior.DDC classification:

591.5/1 19

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QL750 .E95 1986eb

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42.66

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Contents:

Introduction: Evolution and Behavior; I: HISTORICAL APPROACHES TO THE EVOLUTION OF BEHAVIOR; 1. Homology, Analogy, and the Evolution of Behavior; 2. Social and Unsocial Behavior in Dinosaurs; 3. Evolution of Behavior as Expressed in Marine Trace Fossils; 4. The Evolution of Predator-Prey Behavior: Naticid Gastropods and Their Molluscan Prey; II: FIELD AND EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES TO THE EVOLUTION OF BEHAVIOR; 5. Relative Parental Contribution of the Sexes to Their Offspring and the Operation of Sexual Selection; 6. Demographic Routes to Cooperative Breeding in Some New World Jays.

Summary: 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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Papers presented at the 7th Spring Systematics Symposium of the Field Museum, Chicago, May 1984.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-178) and index.

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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