Evolutionary Paleobiology of Behavior and Coevolution
Published on 22. October 2013
750 pages
978-1-4832-9081-2 (ISBN)
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This book is the culmination of many years of research by a scientist renowned for his work in this field. It contains a compilation of the data dealing with the known stratigraphic ranges of varied behaviors, chiefly animal with a few plant and fungal, and coevolved relations. A significant part of the data consists of ``frozen behavior'', i.e. those in which an organism has been preserved while actually ``doing'' something, as contrasted with the interpretations of behavior of an organism deduced from functional morphology, important as the latter may be.The conclusions drawn from this compilation suggest that both behaviors and coevolved relations appear infrequently, following which there is relative fixity of the relation, i.e., two rates of evolution, very rapid and essentially zero. This conclusion complies well with the author's prior conclusion that community evolution followed the same rate pattern. In fact, communities are regarded here, as in large part, expressions of both behavior and coevolved relations, rather than as random aggregates controlled almost wholly by varied, unrelated physical parameters tracked by organisms, i.e., the concept that communities have no biologic reality, being merely statistical abstractions.The book is illustrated throughout with more than 400 photographs and drawings. It will be of interest to ethologists, evolutionists, parasitologists, paleontologists, and palaeobiologists at research and post-graduate levels.
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(abbreviated). INTRODUCTION. PALEONTOLOGIC EVIDENCE. 1. FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY. 2. SPECIALIZED, POTENTIALLY INTERACTING BIOLOGIC SUBSTRATES. Marine invertebrate benthos. Marine Pelagic vertebrates. 3. MUTUALISM. 4. HOST-PARASITE AND HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS. Animal-animal. Marine. Freshwater. Terrestrial. Animal-plant. Mycota-plant. Plant-plant. Mycota-animal. 5. DENSITY AND SPACING. 6. PREDATION AND FEEDING BEHAVIORS. Marine. Invertebrate. Vertebrate. Freshwater. Terrestrial. Invertebrates. Vertebrates. Marine, freshwater, and terrestrial. 7. COMMUNICATION. 8. TRACE FOSSILS AND THEIR FORMERS. Marine. Freshwater. Terrestrial. Invertebrate. Vertebrate. 9. SPECIALIZED SUBSTRATES. Marine. Terrestrial. 10. SEXUAL BEHAVIOR. Terrestrial. Aquatic invertebrates. Vertebrates. 11. PARENTAL CARE. 12. DEPTH BEHAVIOR. 13. PHORESY. 14. DEFENSE. 15. ANURAN CHROMATOPHORES. 16. CARRIER SHELLS. 17. POLLINATION ECOLOGY. 18. PLANT CALLUS. 19. SOCIAL INSECTS. 20. BIVALVE SUBSTRATE BEHAVIOR 21. OVERGROWTHS. 22. LONG-RANGE MIGRATION. 23. MOULTING. 24. BIRD NESTS. 25. FIGHTING BIRDS. 26. SCALLOP RIGHTING BEHAVIOR. 27. SENSITIVE PLANTS. 28. JUVENILE-ADULT HABITAT SHIFT. 29. REPTILIAN AND MANNALIAN BURROWS AND DENS. 30. VERTEBRATE ENDOCRANIAL CASTS. 31. PREENING. 32. RHEOTROPISM. 33. CORAL RIGHTING. 34. GRAIN-SIZE SELECTORS. 35. LATERAL LINE PRESSURE RECEPTORS. CONCLUSIONS. Introduction. 1. COMMUNITY EVOLUTION BEHAVIORAL EVIDENCE. 2. BEHAVIORAL AND COEVOLUTIONARY CONCLUSIONS. 3. SPECIES EVOLUTION BETWEEN FAMILIES AND WITHIN FAMILIES. 4. CORRELATES OF RATES OF EVOLUTION. 5. CLASSES OF PALEONTOLOGIC DATA AND RATES OF CHANGE. 6. NEUTRALISM AND THE FOSSIL RECORD. SUMMARY. QUESTIONS. APPENDIX. References. Addendum. Index of Genera & Species. References & Communications Index. Subject Index.
