Animal Behavior eBook : An Evolutionary Approach /: An Evolutionary Approach. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: John Alcock, John Alcock.
• Authors: Alcock, John, 1942-; Alcock, John, 1942-
• Contents: PART I: AN INTRODUCTION TO ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; 1. The Behavioral Ecology of a Digger Bee; 2. The Science of Behavioral Biology; PART II: BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND THE EVOLUTION OF ALTRUISM; 3. Explaining Altruism: Intelligent Design?; 4. Kin Selection and InclGBive Fitness Theory; 5. The History of Behavioral Traits; 6. Kin Selection and Social Conflict; PART III: THE EVOLUTION OF SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; 7. The Evolution of Helpful Behavior; 8. Kin Selection and Helpful Behavior; 9. Helpers at the Nest: A Darwinian Puzzle; 10. Altruism in Vertebrates and Insects: A Comparison; PART IV: THE EVOLUTION OF COMMUNICATION; 11. The History of a Strange Display; 12. Sensory Exploitation and the Origin of Communication Signals; 13. The Behavioral Ecology of Communication; PART V: AVOIDING PREDATORS AND FINDING FOOD; 14. The Definition of Adaptation; 15. Testing Adaptationist Hypotheses; 16. A Cost–Benefit Approach to Social Defenses; 17. A Cost-Benefit Approach to Cryptic Behavior; 18. Optimality Theory and Antipredator Behavior; 19. Optimality Theory and Foraging Decisions; 20. Game Theory, Feeding Behavior and Another Darwinian Puzzle; PART VI: THE EVOLUTION OF HABITAT SELECTION, TERRITORIALITY, AND MIGRATION; 24. Habitat Selection and Ideal Free Distribution Theory; 25. When to Invest in Territorial Defense; 26. Dispersal and Migration; PART VII: THE EVOLUTION OF REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; 27. Sexual Selection and Bowerbird Behavior; 28. Sexual Selection and Parental Investment; 29. Sexual Selection and the Competition for Mates; 30. Sexual Selection and Sperm Competition; 31. Sexual Selection and Mate Choice; PART VIII: THE EVOLUTION OF MATING SYSTEMS; 32. Is Male Monogamy Adaptive?; 33. MonogamoGB Males, PolyandroGB Females; 34. What Do Females Gain from Polyandry?; 35. Why Are There So Many Kinds of PolygynoGB Mating Systems?; PART IX: THE EVOLUTION OF PARENTAL CARE; 36. The Cost–Benefit Analysis of Parental Care; 37. Discriminating Parental Care; 38. The Puzzle of Parental Favoritism; PART X: PROXIMATE AND ULTIMATE CAGBES OF BEHAVIOR; 39. Connecting the Four Levels of Analysis; 40. The Proximate and Ultimate CaGBes of Monogamy in Prairie Voles; 41. The Proximate CaGBes of Bird Song; 42. The Ultimate CaGBes of Bird Song; 43. Proximate and Ultimate CaGBes Are Complementary; PART XI: THE DEVELOPMENT OF BEHAVIOR; 44. The Nature or Nurture Misconception; 45. Environmental Differences Can CaGBe Behavioral Differences; 46. Genetic Differences Can Also CaGBe Behavioral Differences; 47. Evolution and Behavioral Development; PART XII: EVOLUTION, NERVOGB SYSTEMS, AND BEHAVIOR; 48. Complex Responses to Simple Stimuli; 49. Detecting, Processing, and Responding to Ecologically Significant Stimuli; 50. The Proximate Basis of StimulGB Filtering; 51. The Evolution of Cognitive Skills; PART XIII: HOW NEURONS AND HORMONES ORGANIZE BEHAVIOR; 52. Neural Command and Control; 53. Hormonal Modulation of Behavior; 54. The Costs of Hormonal Regulation; PART XIV: THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR; 55. Language and the Four Levels of Analysis; 56. The Evolutionary Analysis of Mate Choice; 57. The Evolutionary Analysis of Sexual Conflict; 58. Practical Applications of Evolutionary Theory; 59. The Triumph of an Evolutionary Analysis of Human Behavior
• Edition: 10th
• Publisher Details: London : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (522 pages)
• Subjects: Animal behaviour; Mathematics & science
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781605354897; 1605354899
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