Evolution of Animal Behaviour: Paleontological and Field Approaches - Rilegato

 
9780195040067: Evolution of Animal Behaviour: Paleontological and Field Approaches
Rilegato
ISBN 10: 0195040066 ISBN 13: 9780195040067
Casa editrice: OUP USA, 1986

Sinossi

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.

Le informazioni nella sezione "Riassunto" possono far riferimento a edizioni diverse di questo titolo.

Recensione

'This is a valuable book that contains a good blend of topics.' Animal Behaviour

Any successful treatment of the phylogeny of the animal kingdom these days should have three things: 1) a solid knowledge of all the groups, 2) a cladistic approach, and 3) a love of the myriad diversity of the creatures themselves. Claus Nielsen's new book has all three of these ... I find that the author has done a remarkable job of making sense of invertebrates ... a find piece of work. (Cladistics)

Claus NIELSEN writes that his book is "not meant as an alternative to the several recent textbooks of systematic zoology, but as a supplement ...". Compared to these, Claus NIELSEN provides more original illustrations, a more elaborate discussion of alternative hypotheses, more intriguing phylogenetic arguments, and definitely easier reading. (Michael Schmitt, Zoologischer Anzeiger, Band 236 Heft 2)

Contenuti

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.

Le informazioni nella sezione "Su questo libro" possono far riferimento a edizioni diverse di questo titolo.

Editore
OUP USA
Data di pubblicazione
1986
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0195040066
ISBN 13 
9780195040067
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
184
Redattore
Nitecki Matthew H., Kitchell Jennifer A.
Contatto del produttore
Messaggerie Libri
ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it

Via Verdi, 8.
Assago Milano
20090
Italia