Evolution of Animal Behavior: Paleontological and Field Approaches

by Matthew H. Nitecki (Editor), Jennifer A. Kitchell (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195364941
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	08/14/1986
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Field Museum, Chicago

University of Michigan

Table of Contents

I: Introduction1. Evolution and Behavior, Jennifer A. Kitchell and Matthew NiteckiII: Historical Approaches to the Evolution of Behavior2. Homology, Analogy, and the Evolution of Behavior, George V. Lauder3. Social and Unsocial Behavior in Dinosaurs, John H. Ostrom4. Evolution of Behavior as Expressed in Marine Trace Fossils, Adolf Seilacher5. The Evolution of Predator-Prey Behavior: Naticid Gastropods and Their Molluscan Prey, Jennifer A. KitchellIII: Field and Experimental Approaches to the Evolution of Behavior6. Relative Parental Contribution of the Sexes to Their Offspring and the Operation of Sexual Selection, Randy Thornhill7. Demographic Routes to Cooperative Breeding in some New World Jays, John W. Fitzpatrick and Glen E. Woolfenden8. Parent-Offspring Interactions in Arthropoid Primates: An Evolutionary Perspective, Jeanne AltmannIndex

Editorial Reviews

"[This] book is unusual in that it gives equal weight to history and process....The selection of topics ranges widely over different kinds of questions, methods, and animals."—BioScience

"Provide[s] useful reviews spiced with new findings and interpretations."—Biologist

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