Evolution of Animal Behaviour: Paleontological and Field Approaches - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195040066 ISBN 13: 9780195040067

Publisher: OUP USA, 1986

Synopsis

This symposium volume highlights current research in the general field of animal behaviour. The contributors have focused on a series of studies confronting wide-ranging issues: sexual selection and mate choice; differential parental investment; apparent altruism and cooperative behaviour; and the relevance of phylogenetic constraints and historical information. The volume will appeal to evolutionary biologists, behavioural ecologists, palaeontologists, and systematic zoologists, as well as graduate students in these areas.

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Review

'This is a valuable book that contains a good blend of topics.' Animal Behaviour

Any successful treatment of the phylogeny of the animal kingdom these days should have three things: 1) a solid knowledge of all the groups, 2) a cladistic approach, and 3) a love of the myriad diversity of the creatures themselves. Claus Nielsen's new book has all three of these ... I find that the author has done a remarkable job of making sense of invertebrates ... a find piece of work. (Cladistics)

Claus NIELSEN writes that his book is "not meant as an alternative to the several recent textbooks of systematic zoology, but as a supplement ...". Compared to these, Claus NIELSEN provides more original illustrations, a more elaborate discussion of alternative hypotheses, more intriguing phylogenetic arguments, and definitely easier reading. (Michael Schmitt, Zoologischer Anzeiger, Band 236 Heft 2)

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP USA
• Publication date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195040066
• ISBN 13: 9780195040067
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 184
• Editor: Nitecki Matthew H., Kitchell Jennifer A.