Behavioral Mechanisms in Evolutionary Ecology
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1994
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-70597-2 (ISBN)
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
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This volume aims to illuminate long-standing questions about cause-and-effect relations between an animal's behaviour and its environment. The contributors examine how various animals identify and use environmental resources and deal with ecological constraints.
This volume aims to illuminate long-standing questions about cause-and-effect relations between an animal's behaviour and its environment. By focusing on biological mechanisms - the sum of an animal's cognitive, neural, developmental and hormonal processes - researchers demonstrate how the integrated study of animal physiology, cognitive processes and social interaction can yield a better understanding of behaviour. With studies of species ranging from insects to primates, the contributors examine how various animals identify and use environmental resources and deal with ecological constraints, as well as the roles of learning, communication and cognitive aspects of social interaction in behavioural evolution. Taken together, the chapters demonstrate how the study of internal mechanistic foundations of behaviour in relation to their ecological and evolutionary contexts and outcomes provides valuable insight into such behaviours as predation, mating and dispersal. This volume shows how a mechanistic approach unites various levels of biological organization to provide a broader understanding of the biological bases of behavioural evolution.
This volume aims to illuminate long-standing questions about cause-and-effect relations between an animal's behaviour and its environment. By focusing on biological mechanisms - the sum of an animal's cognitive, neural, developmental and hormonal processes - researchers demonstrate how the integrated study of animal physiology, cognitive processes and social interaction can yield a better understanding of behaviour. With studies of species ranging from insects to primates, the contributors examine how various animals identify and use environmental resources and deal with ecological constraints, as well as the roles of learning, communication and cognitive aspects of social interaction in behavioural evolution. Taken together, the chapters demonstrate how the study of internal mechanistic foundations of behaviour in relation to their ecological and evolutionary contexts and outcomes provides valuable insight into such behaviours as predation, mating and dispersal. This volume shows how a mechanistic approach unites various levels of biological organization to provide a broader understanding of the biological bases of behavioural evolution.
Leslie A. Real is professor of biology at Indiana University. He is coeditor (with James H. Brown) of Foundations of Ecology: Classic Papers with Commentaries, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
Part 1 Psychological and cognitive foundations: a synthetic approach to the study of animal intelligence, Alan C. Kamil; learning and foraging - individuals, groups and populations, John R. Krebs and Alastair J. Inman; spatial cognition and navigation in insects, Fred C. Dyer; information processing and the evolutionary ecology of cognitive architecture, Leslie A. Real; optimizing learning and its effect on evolutionary change in behaviour, Daniel R. Papaj. Part 2 Communication. (Part contents).
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.11.1994 |
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Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 15 x 23 mm |
Gewicht | 652 g |
Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution |
Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz | |
Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-226-70597-8 / 0226705978 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-226-70597-2 / 9780226705972 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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