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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Judith Goodenough; Betty McGuire; Robert A Wallace |
| ISBN: | 0471295027 9780471295020 |
| OCLC Number: | 44518115 |
| Description: | xiv, 542 p. : ill., maps ; 29 cm. |
| Contents: | Part 1, Approaches to the study of animal behavior. History of the study of animal behavior -- Genetic analysis of behavior -- Natural selection and ecological analysis of behavior -- Learning -- Physiological analysis--nerve cells and behavior -- Physiological analysis of behavior--the endocrine system -- The development of behavior -- Part 2, Behavior of individual surviving in envieonment. Biological clocks -- Mechanisms of orientation -- The ecology and evolution of spatial distribution -- Foraging -- Antipredator behavior -- Sexual selection -- Parental care and mating systems -- Part 3, Behavior of groups--social behavior. Sociality, conflict, and resolution -- Cooperation and altruism -- Maintaining group cohesion: description and functions of communication and contact -- Mainaining group cohesion: the evolution of communication. |
| Responsibility: | Judith Goodenough, Betty McGuire, Robert A. Wallace. |
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