| Author: | Peter Kappeler |
| Release at: | 2010 |
| Pages: | 712 |
| Edition: | First Edition |
| File Size: | 15 MB |
| File Type: | |
| Language: | English |
Description of Animal Behaviour: Evolution and Mechanisms (PDF)
Animal Behavior Evolution and Mechanisms written by Peter Kappeler is a great Biology book available in (eBook) PDF download. The study of animal behaviour has become one of the fastest growing biological disciplines in recent decades. This development can be easily inferred, for example, from the steady increase in the total number of publications on any aspect of animal behaviour, in particular also in journals with a more general readership (e.g. Nature, Proceedings of the Royal Society or Current Biology), the ever-increasing number of participants at international conferences (e.g. IEC or ISBE), and from the growing numbers of students choosing courses in this field. This development has several causes, of which I find three particularly compelling. First, it is increasingly being appreciated that behaviour is the crucial level at which an individual’s genotype and phenotype interface with the environment. Recognising behaviour as the main mechanism animals employ to ascertain their homeostasis, growth, survival and reproduction therefore provides a deep understanding of organismal integration and adaptation. Second, the astonishing success of the study of animal behaviour also has importantly to do with the intellectual flexibility and methodological inter-disciplinarity required for comprehensive analyses of behaviour.
This increase in the number of studies published in a growing number of ever more specialised journals and the application of new concepts, methods and technologies also has frustrating consequences, however. Except perhaps for a few exceptional colleagues, no one today is really able to develop and maintain an active research programme and to read all interesting and important publications and books that appear every month.
Content of Animal Behaviour: Evolution and Mechanisms (PDF)
Part I ➤ Communication and cognition
Chapter 1: Visual communication: evolution, ecology, and functional mechanisms
Chapter 2: Vocal communication in social groups
Chapter 3: Kin recognition: an overview of conceptual issues, mechanisms and evolutionary theory
Chapter 4: Honeybee cognition
Chapter 5: Individual performance in complex social systems: the greylag goose example
Part II ➤ Conflict and cooperation
Chapter 6: Conflict and conflict resolution in social insects
Chapter 7: Social insects, major evolutionary transitions and multilevel selection
Chapter 8: Cooperation between unrelated individuals a game theoretic approach
Chapter 9: Group decision-making in animal societies
Chapter 10: Parental care: adjustments to conflict and cooperation
Part III ➤ Sex and reproduction
Chapter 11: The quantitative study of sexual and natural selection in the wild and in the laboratory
Chapter 12: Mate choice and reproductive conflict in simultaneous hermaphrodites
Chapter 13: Extra-pair behaviour
Chapter 14: Extreme polyandry in social Hymenoptera: evolutionary causes and consequences for colony organisation
Chapter 15: Monogynous mating strategies in spiders
Chapter 16: Mating systems, social behaviour and hormones
Part IV ➤ Behavioural variation
Chapter 17: The social modulation of behavioural development
Chapter 18: Alternative reproductive tactics and life history phenotypes
Chapter 19: Animal personality and behavioural syndromes
Chapter 20: Social learning and culture in animals
Chapter 21: Levels and mechanisms of behavioural variability
Index
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