Animal behavior : an evolutionary approach /
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| Author / Creator: | Alcock, John, 1942- |
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| Edition: | 6th ed. |
| Imprint: | Sunderland, Mass. : Sinauer Associates, c1998. |
| Description: | xiv, 640, [78] p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2786787 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. An Evolutionary Approach To Animal Behavior
- Questions about Behavior
- How Questions about Proximate Causes
- Why Questions about Ultimate Causes
- Answering Proximate and Ultimate Questions about Behavior
- Beewolves and Homing Behavior
- Gulls and Eggshell Removal
- Darwinian Theory and Ultimate Hypotheses
- Darwinian Logic and the Study of Behavior
- The Problem with Group Selection
- Testing Alternative Hypotheses
- Certainty and Science
- 2. Proximate and Ultimate Causes of Behavior: How and Why Birds Sing
- Different Songs: Proximate Causes
- Social Experience and Song Development
- The Avian Song Control System
- The Development of the Song Control System
- Song Differences Between the Sexes
- Avoiding a Misunderstanding
- Different Songs: Ultimate Causes
- The Adaptationist Approach
- Why Do Only Males Sing?
- Natural Selection and Dialects
- Proximate and Ultimate Causes Are Complementary
- 3. The Development of Behavior: A Focus on Heredity
- The Genetics of Behavior
- Genetic Differences and Human Behavior
- Genetic Differences and IQ Differences
- How Many Genetic Differences Are Needed to Produce a Behavioral Difference?
- The Evolution of Behavior
- Different Selection Pressures, Different Genes, Different Behaviors
- 4. The Development of Behavior: A Focus on the Environment
- The Interactive Theory of Development: Hormones and Behavior
- When to Become a Forager in a Honey Bee Colony
- When to Become a Territorial Male
- Experience and Behavioral Development
- Early Experience and Recognition of Relatives
- Learning as Behavioral Development
- Evolution and Behavioral Development
- The Adaptive Value of Developmental Flexibility
- Sex Differences in Spatial Learning Ability
- The Evolution of Associative Learning
- The Evolution of Developmental Homeostasis
- The Adaptive Value of Developmental Homeostasis
- 5. The Control of Behavior: Neural Mechanisms
- How Neurons Control Behavior
- Sensory Receptors and Survival
- Relaying and Responding to Sensory Input
- Central Pattern Generators
- The Song of the Midshipman Fish
- The Proximate Basis of Stimulus Filtering
- Stimulus Filtering by Auditory Receptors
- Stimulus Filtering in the Tactile Mode
- Adaptive Proximate Mechanisms of Behavior
- Adaptive Mechanisms of Navigation
- An Olfactory Map
- 6. The Organization of Behavior: Neurons and Hormones
- How Neural Command Centers Organize Behavior
- Clock Mechanisms and Behavioral Schedules
- How Do Circadian Mechanisms Work?
- Long-Term Cycles of Behavior
- The Physical Environment Influences Long-Term Cycles
- Changing Priorities in Changing Social Environments
- The Effects of Copulation in the Green Anole
- Hormones Help Organize Social Behavior
- 7. Adaptation and Antipredator Behavior
- The Meaning of Adaptation
- The Comparative Method for Testing Adaptationist Hypotheses
- The Importance of Divergent Evolution
- The Importance of Convergent Evolution
- The Diversity of Antipredator Adaptations
- The Value of Body "Decorations"
- The Value of Warning Behavior
- How To Stop a Pursuer
- The Value of Vigilance
- The Dilution Effect and the Selfish Herd
- Fighting Back
- A Tactic of Last Resort?
- 8. The Evolution of Feeding Behavior
- Locating Food
- The Origins of Prey-Locating Mechanisms
- Getting Help from Companions
- The History of Honey Bee Dances
- The Adaptive Value of Honey Bee Dances
- The Information Center Hypothesis
- Locating Prey by Deceit
- Selecting What to Eat
- How to Choose an Optimal Clam
- How to Choose an Optimal Mussel
- Criticisms of Optimality Theory
- The Evolution of Alternative Diets
- Consuming What You Select to Eat
- How to Open a Whelk
- Why Do Humans Consume Alcohol, Spices, and Dirt?
- 9. Choosing Where to Live
- Habitat Selection
- Habitat Preferences in a Territorial Species
- Dispersing from One Place to Another
- Migration
- The Costs of Migration
- The Benefits of Migration
- Migration as a Conditional Tactic
- Territoriality
- Territoriality and Calories
- Territorial Puzzles
- Why Do Territory Holders Almost Always Win?
- 10. The Evolution of Communication
- The Origins and Adaptive Value of a Signal
- Cumulative Selection and Multiple Changes
- The Adaptive Value of Past Changes
- Current Adaptive Value
- The History of a Signal-Receiving Mechanism
- The History of Insect Wings
- Sensory Exploitation of Signal Receivers by Signalers
- Sensory Preferences May Precede the Evolution of a Signal
- The Panda Principle
- The Adaptationist Approach to Communication Systems
- Why Do Baby Birds Beg So Noisily for Food?
- Illegitimate Receivers
- Adaptive Signal Receiving
- Receivers May Require Honest Signals
- Why Does Deception Occur?
- 11. The Evolution of Reproductive Behavior
- The Evolution of Differences in Sex Roles
- Testing the Evolutionary Theory of Sex Differences
- Sexual Selection and Competition for Mates
- Social Dominance and Male Fitness
- Alternative Mating Tactics
- A Conditional Strategy with Alternative Mating Tactics
- Three Distinct Strategies: Three Mating Tactics
- Sexual Selection and Sperm Competition
- Mate Guarding
- Sexual Selection and Mate Choice
- Female Mate Choice without Material Benefits
- Testing the Healthy Mate, Good Genes, and Runaway Selection Theories
- Sexual Conflict between Males and Females
- 12. The Evolution of Mating Systems
- Is Monogamy Adaptive?
- Monogamy in Mammals
- Monogamy in Birds
- Extra-Pair Copulations: The Male Perspective
- Extra-Pair Copulations: The Female Perspective
- Polyandry without Polygyny
- Polygyny
- Female Defense Polygyny: The Female Perspective
- Resource Defense Polygyny
- Resource Defense Polygyny: The Female Perspective
- Scramble Competition Polygyny
- Lek Polygyny
- Why Do Males Aggregate in Leks?
- Why Do Many Females Mate with the Same Males at Leks?
- 13. The Evolution of Parental Care
- Why Is Parental Care More Often Maternal than Paternal?
- Exceptions to the Rule
- Why Do Male Water Bugs Do All the Work?
- Discriminating Parental Care
- Offspring Recognition: Comparative Studies
- Why Adopt Genetic Strangers?
- The History of Interspecific Brood Parasitism
- Why Accept a Parasite's Egg?
- Can Adoption Benefit Foster Parents?
- The Evolution of Parental Favoritism
- 14. The Evolution of Social Behavior
- The Benefits and Costs of Social Life
- The Evolution of Helpful Behavior
- Reciprocal Altruism or Personal Gain?
- Altruism and Indirect Selection
- The Alarm Call of Belding's Ground Squirrel
- The Concept of Inclusive Fitness
- Inclusive Fitness and Helpers at the Nest
- Insect Helpers at the Nest
- The Evolution of Eusocial Behavior
- Testing the Haplodiploid Hypothesis
- Very Close Relatedness Is Not Essential for Eusociality to Evolve
- The Ecology of Eusociality
- 15. The Evolution of Human Behavior
- The Adaptationist Approach to Human Behavior
- The Sociobiology Controversy
- Evolution and the Diversity of Human Cultures
- Sociobiology versus Arbitrary Culture Theory
- Adaptive Mating Decisions
- Adaptive Mate Choice by Women
- Adaptive Mate Choice by Men
- Conflict between the Sexes
- Coercive Sex
- Adaptive Parental Care
- Helping Children Marry
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Illustration Credits
- Index
