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Animal Behaviour: Evolution and Mechanisms (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2010) Loot Price: R1,969
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Animal Behaviour: Evolution and Mechanisms (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2010): Nils Anthes

Animal Behaviour: Evolution and Mechanisms (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2010)

Nils Anthes; Edited by Peter M. Kappeler; Ralph Bergmuller, Wolf Blanckenhorn, H. Jane Brockmann, Claudia Fichtel, Lutz Fromhage, Joachim Frommen, Wolfgang Goymann, Juergen Heinze

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Communication and cognition.- Visual communication: evolution, ecology, and functional mechanisms.- Vocal communication in social groups.- Kin recognition: an overview of conceptual issues, mechanisms and evolutionary theory.- Honeybee cognition.- Individual performance in complex social systems: the greylag goose example.- Conflict and cooperation.- Conflict and conflict resolution in social insects.- Social insects, major evolutionary transitions and multilevel selection.- Cooperation between unrelated individuals - a game theoretic approach.- Group decision-making in animal societies.- Parental care: adjustments to conflict and cooperation.- Sex and reproduction.- The quantitative study of sexual and natural selection in the wild and in the laboratory.- Mate choice and reproductive conflict in simultaneous hermaphrodites.- Extra-pair behaviour.- Extreme polyandry in social Hymenoptera: evolutionary causes and consequences for colony organisation.- Monogynous mating strategies in spiders.- Mating systems, social behaviour and hormones.- Behavioural variation.- The social modulation of behavioural development.- Alternative reproductive tactics and life history phenotypes.- Animal personality and behavioural syndromes.- Social learning and culture in animals.- Levels and mechanisms of behavioural variability.

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Imprint: Springer-Verlag
Country of origin: Germany
Release date: August 2016
First published: 2010
Authors: Nils Anthes
Editors: Peter M. Kappeler
Authors: Ralph Bergmuller • Wolf Blanckenhorn • H. Jane Brockmann • Claudia Fichtel • Lutz Fromhage • Joachim Frommen • Wolfgang Goymann • Juergen Heinze
Dimensions: 235 x 155 x 40mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 707
Edition: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2010
ISBN-13: 978-3-662-50235-8
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Evolution
Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Neurosciences
Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Zoology & animal sciences > Animal behaviour
Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Zoology & animal sciences > Animal ecology
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LSN: 3-662-50235-6
Barcode: 9783662502358

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