Behaviour and Evolution
Behaviour and Evolution
Tim R. Halliday
$51.00
USDSome of the most exciting recent advances in animal behaviour have occurred at the interface between that subject and the study of evolution. This book, written by experts in this area, illustrates how the profound changes in our understanding of evolution have influenced behavioural research. Its chapters span both studies of how behaviour itself has evolved, dealing with topics such as comparative studies, the genetics of behaviour, speciation and the evolution of sociality and of intelligence, and also the adaptiveness which this evolution has brought about, with treatment of mating and fighting strategies, and theories of kinship and altruism.Behaviour and Evolution will be invaluable to senior undergraduate and graduate students of biology and psychology, especially those studying animal behaviour, behavioural ecology, sociobiology, evolution, ecology and environmental biology.
Reviews & endorsements
"...well-written and clearly organized...would be most useful to support upper-division undergraduate or graduate studies...presents a very useful overview of topics that are of interest to all animal biologists." Choice
"[Slater and Halliday] have done a nice job of choosing an interesting array of authors and topics, ranging from A. A. Hoffman's treatment of the evolutionary genetics of behavior to R. W. Byrne's summary of the evolution of intelligence....[T]his volume could be a useful tool in preparing the study of behavioral evolution for graduation into mainstream evolutionary biology itself." Scott P. Carroll, Quarterly Review of Biology
"The book is a scholarly yet fascinating description of the principles by which behavior is affected by evolutionary forces and, in turn, feeds back to affect selection pressures....[A] valuable book...which should be required reading for all professionals in evolutionary ecology and all those who hope to enter this field." William Abruzzi, Human Ethology Bulletin
Product details
October 1994Paperback
9780521429238
360 pages
229 × 152 × 20 mm
0.53kg
Available
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Behaviour genetics and evolution A. A. Hoffmann
- 3. Behaviour and speciation R. K. Butlin and M. G. Ritchie
- 4. The phylogeny of behaviour J. L. Gittleman and D. M. Decker
- 5. Strategies of behaviour I. F. Harvey
- 6. Sex and evolution T. R. Halliday
- 7. Kinship and altruism P. J. B. Slater
- 8. The evolution of intelligence R. W. Byrne
- 9. Social structure and evolution P. C. Lee
- References
- Index.
