UID:
almafu_9959234310502883
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 562 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-316-08828-6
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1-107-08655-8
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0-511-78136-9
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1-107-08976-X
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1-107-09606-5
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1-107-10166-2
Content:
Humans live in large and extensive societies and spend much of their time interacting socially. Likewise, most other animals also interact socially. Social behaviour is of constant fascination to biologists and psychologists of many disciplines, from behavioural ecology to comparative biology and sociobiology. The two major approaches used to study social behaviour involve either the mechanism of behaviour - where it has come from and how it has evolved, or the function of the behaviour studied. With guest articles from leaders in the field, theoretical foundations along with recent advances are presented to give a truly multidisciplinary overview of social behaviour, for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. Topics include aggression, communication, group living, sexual behaviour and co-operative breeding. With examples ranging from bacteria to social mammals and humans, a variety of research tools are used, including candidate gene approaches, quantitative genetics, neuro-endocrine studies, cost-benefit and phylogenetic analyses and evolutionary game theory.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Introduction: the uphill climb of sociology: towards a new synthesis /
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Profile: Undiminished passion /
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Foundations:
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Nature-nurture interactions /
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Profile: social evolution, sexual intrigue and serendipity /
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The quantitative genetics of social behaviour /
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Profile: mating systems: integrating sexual conflict and ecology /
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Social behaviour and bird-song from a neural and endocrine perspective /
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Profile: In love with Ropalidia marginata: 34 years, and still going strong /
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Evolutionary game theory /
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Profile: The holder's dilemma: a cold shoulder or a warm inner glow /
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Recent advances in comparative methods /
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Profile: Multi-component signals in ant communication /
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Social evolution theory: a review of methods and approaches /
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Profiles: what's wrong with this picture? /
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Themes:
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Aggression: towards an integration of gene, brain and behaviour /
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Profile: From behavioural observations, to genes, to evolution /
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Social influences on communication signals: from honesty to exploitation /
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Profile: reputation can make the world go round, or why are we sometime social /
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Important topics in group living /
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Profile: a haphazard career /
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Sexual behaviour: conflict, cooperation and co-evolution /
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Profile: In celebration of questions, past, present and future /
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Pair bonds and parental behaviour /
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Profile: mating systems and generic variation /
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Adaptations and constraints in the evolution of delayed dispersal: implications for cooperation /
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Profile: Selections from a life in social selection /
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Social behaviour in microorganisms /
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Profile: the de novo evolution of cooperation: an unlikely event /
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Social environments, social tactics and their fitness consequences in complex mammalian societies /
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Profile: evolutionary genetics and social behaviour: changed perspectives on sexual coevolution /
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Social behaviour in humans /
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Profile: genes and social behaviour: from gene to genome to 1000 genomes /
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Implications:
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Personality and individual social specialisation /
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Profile: behavioural ecology: why do I love thee? let me count the reasons /
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Molecular and genetic influences on the neural substrate of social cognition in humans /
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Profile: anonymous (and other)social experience and the evolution of cooperation by reciprocity /
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Population density, social behaviour and sex allocation /
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Profile: social theory based on natural selection /
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Social behaviour and speciation /
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Profile: look to the ants /
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Social behaviour in conservation /
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Profile: the handicap principle and social behaviour /
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Prospects for research in social behaviour: systems biology meets behaviour /
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-88317-2
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-70962-8
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511781360
