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Evolution of animal behavior : paleontological and field approaches

Title
Evolution of animal behavior : paleontological and field approaches / edited by Matthew H. Nitecki and Jennifer A. Kitchell.
Publication
New York : Oxford University Press, 1986.

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Additional Authors
  • Nitecki, Matthew H.
  • Kitchell, Jennifer A.
  • Field Museum of Natural History.
  • Spring Systematics Symposium (7th : 1984 : Chicago, Ill.)
Description
184 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Summary
This volume highlights current research in the field of animal behavior, with an emphasis on evolutionary perspectives. The contributors represent paleontological, field, and experimental approaches. They focus on a series of studies that confront wide-ranging issues, including sexual selection, mate choice, differential parental investment, apparent altruism, cooperative behavior, and the relevance of phylogenetic constraints and historical information. The volume will be of special interest to evolutionary biologists, behavioral ecologists, and paleontologists.
Subject
  • Animal behavior > Evolution > Congresses
  • Animal behavior > Evolution
  • Ethologie
  • Evolutie
  • Paleontologie
Genre/Form
  • Conference papers and proceedings.
  • Actes de congrès.
Note
  • Papers presented at the 7th Spring Systematics Symposium of the Field Museum, Chicago, May 1984.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies and index.
Contents
Homology, analogy, and the evolution of behavior / George V. Lauder -- Social and unsocial behavior in dinosaurs / John H. Ostrom -- Evolution of behavior as expressed in marine trace fossils / Adolf Seilacher -- The evolution of predator-prey behavior : Naticid gastropods and their molluscan prey / Jennifer A. Kitchell -- Relative parental contribution of the sexes to their offspring and the operation of sexual selection / Randy Thornhill -- Demographic routes to cooperative breeding in some New World jays / John W. Fitzpatrick and Glen E. Woolfenden -- Parent-offspring interactions in anthropod primates : an evolutionary perspective / Jeanne Altmann.
ISBN
  • 0195040066
  • 9780195040067
LCCN
85028495
OCLC
  • ocm12944920
  • 12944920
  • SCSB-643624
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library