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Ask anyone who has owned a pet and they'll assure you that, yes,
animals have personalities. And science is beginning to agree.
Researchers have demonstrated that both domesticated and non
domesticated animals - from invertebrates to monkeys and apes -
behave in consistently different ways, meeting the criteria for
what many define as personality. But why the differences, and how
are personalities shaped by genes and environment? How did they
evolve? The essays in "Animal Personalities" reveal that there is
much to learn from our furred and feathered friends. The study of
animal personality is one of the fastest-growing areas of research
in behavioral and evolutionary biology. Here Claudio Carere and
Dario Maestripieri, along with a host of scholars from fields as
diverse as ecology, genetics, endocrinology, neuroscience, and
psychology, provide a comprehensive overview of the current
research on animal personality. Grouped into thematic sections,
chapters approach the topic with empirical and theoretical material
and show that to fully understand why personality exists, we must
consider the evolutionary processes that give rise to personality,
the ecological correlates of personality differences, and the
physiological mechanisms underlying personality variation.
Evolutionary maternal effects occur whenever a mother's phenotypic
traits directly affect her offspring's phenotype, independent of
the offspring's genotype. Some of the phenotypic traits that result
in maternal effects have a genetic basis, whereas others are
environmentally determined. For example, the size of a litter
produced by a mammalian mother - a trait with a strong genetic
basis - can affect the growth rate of her offspring, while a
mother's dominance rank - an environmentally determined trait - can
affect the dominance rank of her offspring. The first volume
published on the subject in more than a decade, "Maternal Effects
in Mammals" reflects advances in genomic, ecological, and
behavioral research, as well as new understandings of the
evolutionary interplay between mothers and their offspring. Dario
Maestripieri and Jill M. Mateo bring together a learned group of
contributors to synthesize the vast literature on a range of
species, highlight evolutionary processes that were previously
overlooked, and propose new avenues of research. "Maternal Effects
in Mammals" will serve as the most comprehensive compendium on and
stimulus for interdisciplinary treatments of mammalian maternal
effects.
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Primate Psychology (Paperback, New Ed)
Dario Maestripieri; Contributions by Filippo Aureli, Jo-Anne Bachorowski, Michael J Beran, Jesse M Bering, …
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In more ways than we may sometimes care to acknowledge, the human
being is just another primate--it is certainly only very rarely
that researchers into cognition, emotion, personality, and behavior
in our species and in other primates come together to compare notes
and share insights. This book, one of the few comprehensive
attempts at integrating behavioral research into human and nonhuman
primates, does precisely that--and in doing so, offers a clear,
in-depth look at the mutually enlightening work being done in
psychology and primatology.
Relying on theories of behavior derived from psychology rather
than ecology or biological anthropology, the authors,
internationally known experts in primatology and psychology, focus
primarily on social processes in areas including aggression,
conflict resolution, sexuality, attachment, parenting, social
development and affiliation, cognitive development, social
cognition, personality, emotions, vocal and nonvocal communication,
cognitive neuroscience, and psychopathology. They show nonhuman
primates to be far more complex, cognitively and emotionally, than
was once supposed, with provocative implications for our
understanding of supposedly unique human characteristics. Arguing
that both human and nonhuman primates are distinctive for their
wide range of context-sensitive behaviors, their work makes a
powerful case for the future integration of human and primate
behavioral research.
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