
Advances in the Study of Behavior: Volume 23
Academic Press
Published on 11. April 1994
Book
Hardback
284 pages
978-0-12-004523-5 (ISBN)
Description
Advances in the Study of Behavior continues to serve scientists across a wide spectrum of disciplines. Focusing on new theories and research developments with respect to behavioral ecology, evolutionary biology, and comparative psychology, these volumes serve to foster cooperation and communication in these diverse fields. Volume 23 focuses on research on the lower vertebrates with respect to the functional significance of different breeding strategies, the level at which natural selection acts, methods of teasing apart the genetic control of behavior, the assumptions underlying models of territoriality, and signalling systems and the sensory mechanisms on which they depend.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
San Diego
United States
Publishing group
Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Experimental psychologists studying animal behavior, comparative psychologists, ethologists, evolutionary biologists, and ichthyologists.
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
580 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-12-004523-5 (9780120045235)
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Persons
Dr. Peter Slater is a Kennedy Professor of Natural History at the University of St Andrews, in Scotland. He is a former Editor of the journal Animal Behaviour and past President of the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour. He received the Association's medal in 1999. His research interests are in vocal communication, with emphasis on the development and organization of song in birds. Dr. Jay S. Rosenblatt is the Daniel S. Lehrman Professor of Psychobiology in the Psychology Department of Rutgers University-Newark Campus, Newark, NJ. He is an Associate of the Animal Behavior Society and the American Psychological Association and has received honorary doctoral degrees from Goeteborg University in Sweden and National University of Education at a Distance, Madrid. His interests include the study of parental behavior and behavioral development among animals. Charles T. Snowdon is a Hilldale Professor of Psychology and Zoology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Currently editor of the Journal of Comparative Psychology, he was previously North American Editor of Animal Behaviour and has served as President of the Animal Behavior Society. He has held a Research Scientist Award from the National Institute of Mental Health since 1977. His research interests are in vocal and chemical communication, reproductive behavioral biology, parental care and infant development in cooperatively breeding primates. His students and collaborators work in both captive and field settings.
Content
M. Taborsky, Sneakers, Satellites and Helpers: Parasitic and Cooperative Behavior in Fish Reproduction.
L.A. Dugatkin and H.K. Reeve, Behavioral Ecology and Levels of Selection: Dissolving the Group Selection Controversy.
T.C.M. Bakker, Genetic Correlations and the Control of Behavior, Exemplified by Aggressiveness in Sticklebacks.
J. Stamps, Territorial Behavior: Testing the Assumptions.
B. Kramer, Communication Behavior and Sensory Mechanisms in Weakly Electric Fishes.
Chapter References.
Subject Index.
L.A. Dugatkin and H.K. Reeve, Behavioral Ecology and Levels of Selection: Dissolving the Group Selection Controversy.
T.C.M. Bakker, Genetic Correlations and the Control of Behavior, Exemplified by Aggressiveness in Sticklebacks.
J. Stamps, Territorial Behavior: Testing the Assumptions.
B. Kramer, Communication Behavior and Sensory Mechanisms in Weakly Electric Fishes.
Chapter References.
Subject Index.