Behaviour and Evolution [Hardcover]

This book illustrates how the profound changes in our understanding of evolution have influenced behavioural research.Illustrating how the profound changes in our understanding of evolution have influenced behavioral research, this book spans studies of how behavior itself has evolved as well as the adaptiveness that evolution has brought about.Illustrating how the profound changes in our understanding of evolution have influenced behavioral research, this book spans studies of how behavior itself has evolved as well as the adaptiveness that evolution has brought about.This book illustrates how the profound changes in our understanding of evolution have influenced behavioral research. Its chapters span both studies of how behavior itself has evolved, dealing with topics such as comparative studies, the genetics of behavior, speciation, and the evolution of sociality and of intelligence, and also the adaptiveness that this evolution has brought about, with treatment of mating and fighting strategies, and theories of kinship and altruism.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. ...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 l'