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

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.

General

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
LSN:	3-662-50235-6
Barcode:	9783662502358

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