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Evolutionary Behavioral Ecology is intended to be used a text for
graduate students and a sourcebook for professional scientists
seeking an understanding of the evolutionary and ecological
processes shaping behavior across a wide array of organisms and a
diverse set of behaviors. Chapters are written by an array of
leading experts in the field, providing a core foundation, a
history of conceptual developments, and fresh insight into the
controversies and themes shaping the continuing development of the
field. Essays on adaptation, selection, fitness, genetics,
plasticity, and phylogeny as they pertain to behavior place the
field in the broader context of ecology and evolution. These
concepts, along with a diversity of theoretical approaches are
applied to the evolution of behavior in a many contexts, from
individual decision-making of solitary animals through to complex
social interactions. Chapters integrate conceptual and theoretical
approaches with recent empirical advances to understand the
evolution of behavior, from foraging, dealing with risk, predator
avoidance, and an array of social behaviors, including fighting and
cooperation with conspecifics and conflict and cooperation between
the sexes. Chapters also emphasize integrative and novel approaches
to behavior, including cognitive ecology, personality, conservation
biology, the links between behavior and evolution, the evolution of
human social behavior, and ways in which modern genetic analyses
can augment the study of behavior.
Evolutionary Behavioral Ecology is intended to be used a text for
graduate students and a sourcebook for professional scientists
seeking an understanding of the evolutionary and ecological
processes shaping behavior across a wide array of organisms and a
diverse set of behaviors. Chapters are written by an array of
leading experts in the field, providing a core foundation, a
history of conceptual developments, and fresh insight into the
controversies and themes shaping the continuing development of the
field. Essays on adaptation, selection, fitness, genetics,
plasticity, and phylogeny as they pertain to behavior place the
field in the broader context of ecology and evolution. These
concepts, along with a diversity of theoretical approaches are
applied to the evolution of behavior in a many contexts, from
individual decision-making of solitary animals through to complex
social interactions. Chapters integrate conceptual and theoretical
approaches with recent empirical advances to understand the
evolution of behavior, from foraging, dealing with risk, predator
avoidance, and an array of social behaviors, including fighting and
cooperation with conspecifics and conflict and cooperation between
the sexes. Chapters also emphasize integrative and novel approaches
to behavior, including cognitive ecology, personality, conservation
biology, the links between behavior and evolution, the evolution of
human social behavior, and ways in which modern genetic analyses
can augment the study of behavior.
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