| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 641 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Ingenious ideas : the history of behavioral ecology / Tim R. Birkhead and Pat Monaghan -- Adaptation / Charles W. Fox and David F. Westneat -- Behavioral concepts of selection / Barry Sinervo and Ryan Calsbeek -- What is fitness, and how do we measure it? / John Hunt and David Hodgson -- The genetic basis of behavior / Kerry L. Shaw and Chris Wiley -- Behavior as phenotypic plasticity / Cameron K. Ghalambor, Lisa M. Angeloni, and Scott P. Carroll -- Evolution of behavior : phylogeny and the origin of present-day diversity / Terry J. Ord and Emilia P. Martins -- Decision theory / Ronald Ydenberg -- Information use and sensory ecology / Johanna Mappes and Martin Stevens -- Information processing : the ecology and evolution of cognitive abilities / Susan D. Healy and Candy Rowe -- Foraging theory / Ian M. Hamilton -- Managing risk : the perils of uncertainty / Sasha R.X. Dall -- Predation risk and behavioral life history / Peter Nonacs and Daniel T. Blumstein -- Interacting phenotypes and indirect genetic effects / Jason B. Wolf and Allen J. Moore -- Contest behavior / Mark Briffa and Lynne U. Sneddon -- Signaling / Magnus Enquist, Peter L. Hurd, and Stefano Ghirlanda -- Behavior in groups / Ryan L. Earley and Lee Alan Dugatkin -- Altruism and cooperation / Andy Gardner, Ashleigh S. Griffin, and Stuart A. West -- Evolution of complex societies / David C. Queller and Joan E. Strassmann -- Sexual selection / Michael D. Jennions and Hanna Kokko -- Sexual selection in external fertilizers / Don R. Levitan -- Postcopulatory sexual selection / Scott Pitnick and David J. Hosken -- Sexual conflict / Claudia Fricke, Amanda Bretman, and Tracey Chapman -- Mate choice / Robert C. Brooks and Simon C. Griffith -- Alternative mating strategies / Stephen M. Shuster -- Parental care / Charlotta Kvarnemo -- Behavioral ecology and speciation / Howard D. Rundle and Janette W. Boughman -- Genomic approaches to behavioral ecology and evolution / Christina M. Grozinger -- Decision making, environmental change, and population persistence / Martin A. Schlaepfer, Paul W. Sherman, and Michael C. Runge -- Behavioral syndromes / Andrew Sih, Alison Bell, and J. Chadwick Johnson -- Evolution and human behavior / Debra Lieberman and Steven W. Gangestad |
| Summary |
Evolutionary Behavioral Ecology is intended to be used a text for graduate students and a sourcebook for professional scientists seeking an understanding of the evolutionary and ecological processes shaping behavior across a wide array of organisms and a diverse set of behaviors. Chapters are written by an array of leading experts in the field, providing a core foundation, a history of conceptual developments, and fresh insight into the controversies and themes shaping the continuing development of the field. Essays on adaptation, selection, fitness, genetics, plasticity, and phylogeny as they pertain to behavior place the field in the broader context of ecology and evolution. These concepts, along with a diversity of theoretical approaches are applied to the evolution of behavior in a many contexts, from individual decision-making of solitary animals through to complex social interactions. Chapters integrate conceptual and theoretical approaches with recent empirical advances to understand the evolution of behavior, from foraging, dealing with risk, predator avoidance, and an array of social behaviors, including fighting and cooperation with conspecifics and conflict and cooperation between the sexes. Chapters also emphasize integrative and novel approaches to behavior, including cognitive ecology, personality, conservation biology, the links between behavior and evolution, the evolution of human social behavior, and ways in which modern genetic analyses can augment the study of behavior |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Animal behavior -- Evolution.
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Animal ecology.
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| Author |
Fox, Charles W.
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Westneat, David F.
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| LC no. |
2009031325 |
| ISBN |
0199715785 (electronic bk) |
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9780199715787 (electronic bk) |
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