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Advances in the Study of Behavior
- 1st Edition, Volume 22 - February 24, 1993
- Editors: Peter J.B. Slater, Manfred Milinski, Charles T. Snowdon, Jay S. Rosenblatt
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 0 0 4 5 2 2 - 8
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 3 9 9 4 3 8 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 5 8 2 8 3 - 2
Advances in the Study of Behavior is the leading series in its field. Each volume includes a variety of review essays by experts providing authoritative overviews of key areas… Read more
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Request a sales quoteAdvances in the Study of Behavior is the leading series in its field. Each volume includes a variety of review essays by experts providing authoritative overviews of key areas of current interest that are invaluable to the teacher, student, and researcher in the field of behavior, whether psychologist or biologist. This volume continues the tradition of excellence in the study of behavior by covering a whole range of biological and psychological research. Each of the chapters presents new ideas, with a particularly interesting approach to sexual coercion. The volume as a whole has a particular strength in the area of behavioral development, which is the main topic of the last three chapters.
Experimental psychologists studying animal behavior, ethologists, evolutionary biologists and primatologists.
Contributors.
Preface.
B.B. Smuts and R.W. Smuts, Male Aggression and Sexual Coercion of Females in Nonhuman Primates and Other Mammals: Evidence and Theoretical Implications.
A.P. Moller, R. Dufva and K. Allander, Parasites and the Evolution of Host Social Behavior.
S.E. Riechert, The Evolution of Behavioral Phenotypes: Lessons Learned from Divergent Spider Populations.
E. Curio, Proximate and Developmental Aspects of Antipredator Behavior.
M.A. Vince, Newborn Lambs and Their Dams: The Interaction That Leads to Sucking.
T.G.G. Groothuis, The Ontogeny of Social Displays: Form Development, Form Fixation, and Change in Context.
Index.
Preface.
B.B. Smuts and R.W. Smuts, Male Aggression and Sexual Coercion of Females in Nonhuman Primates and Other Mammals: Evidence and Theoretical Implications.
A.P. Moller, R. Dufva and K. Allander, Parasites and the Evolution of Host Social Behavior.
S.E. Riechert, The Evolution of Behavioral Phenotypes: Lessons Learned from Divergent Spider Populations.
E. Curio, Proximate and Developmental Aspects of Antipredator Behavior.
M.A. Vince, Newborn Lambs and Their Dams: The Interaction That Leads to Sucking.
T.G.G. Groothuis, The Ontogeny of Social Displays: Form Development, Form Fixation, and Change in Context.
Index.
- No. of pages: 330
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 22
- Published: February 24, 1993
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardback ISBN: 9780120045228
- Paperback ISBN: 9780123994387
- eBook ISBN: 9780080582832
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Peter J.B. Slater
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.
Affiliations and expertise
University of St. Andrews, Fife, U.K.MM
Manfred Milinski
Affiliations and expertise
Zoologisches Institut, Abteilung Verhalten-sokologie, Universitat Bern, Hinterkappelen, SwitzerlandCS
Charles T. Snowdon
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.
Affiliations and expertise
University of Wisconsin, Madison, USAJR
Jay S. Rosenblatt
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 Göteborg 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.
Affiliations and expertise
Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, U.S.A.Read Advances in the Study of Behavior on ScienceDirect