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  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0878939660
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0878939664
  • Author:  John Alcock

This new edition of Animal Behavior has been thoroughly rewritten with coverage of much recent work in animal behavior. The scope of the changes for the tenth edition, however, is much more all-encompassing than that of past revisions. Thoughtful suggestions from many readers inspired a major reorganization of the material, such that the new book presents the central concepts of animal behavior in a different sequence from prior editions:

The Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection. Instead of introducing the concept of proximate and ultimate causation and then focusing heavily on the proximate mechanisms of behavior in the early chapters, this edition focuses first on the evolutionary basis of behavior. Chapter 1 presents the concept of a Darwinian puzzle, a trait that exists even though it seems to reduce the reproductive success of individuals, in which case it should have been eliminated by natural selection. The emphasis on Darwinian puzzles continues, with an in-depth discussion of the evolution of altruism in Chapter 2 (versus Chapter 14) and subsequent exploration of the adaptive value of a broad range of traits from anti-predator activities to reproductive and parental behaviors.

Table contents:

  1. An introduction to animal behavior
  2. Behavioral ecology and the evolution of altruism
  3. The evolution of social behavior
  4. The evolution of communication
  5. Avoiding predators and finding food
  6. The evolution of habitat selection, territoriality, and migration
  7. The evolution of reproductive behavior
  8. The evolution of mating systems
  9. The evolution of parental care
  10. Proximate and ultimate causes of behavior
  11. The development of behavior
  12. Evolution, nervous systems, and behavior
  13. How neurons and hormones organize behavior
  14. The evolution of human behavior

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