Evolution of animal behavior : paleontological and field approaches
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Evolution of animal behavior : paleontological and field approaches
Oxford University Press, 1986
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Papers presented at the 7th Spring Systematics Symposium of the Field Museum, Chicago, May 1984
Bibliography: p. 174-178
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This symposium volume highlights current research in the general field of animal behaviour. The contributors have focused on a series of studies confronting wide-ranging issues: sexual selection and mate choice; differential parental investment; apparent altruism and cooperative behaviour; and the relevance of phylogenetic constraints and historical information. The volume will appeal to evolutionary biologists, behavioural ecologists, palaeontologists, and
systematic zoologists, as well as graduate students in these areas.
Table of Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- Jennifer A Kitchell & Matthew H Nitecki: Evolution and behaviour
- HISTORICAL APPROACHES TO THE EVOLUTION OF BEHAVIOUR: George V Lauder: Homology, analogy, and the evolution of behaviour
- John H Ostrom-Peabody: Social and unsocial behaviour in dinosaurs
- Adolf Seilacher: Evolution of behaviour as expressed in marine trace fossils
- Jennifer A Kitchell: The evolution of predator-prey behaviour: Naticid gastropods and their molluscan prey
- FIELD AND EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES TO THE EVOLUTION OF BEHAVIOUR: Randy Thornhill: Relative parental contribution of the sexes to their offspring and the operation of sexual selection
- John W Fitzpatrick & Glen E Woolfenden: Demographic routes to cooperative breeding in some New World jays
- Jean Altmann: Parent-offspring interactions in Arthropoid Primates: an evolutionary perspective
- Index.
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