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Exploring Animal Behavior: Readings from American Scientist

Exploring Animal Behavior: Readings from American Scientist


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Published by Sinauer Associates, an imprint of Oxford University Press. This anthology contains 37 articles published since 1974 in American Scientist, the journal of the scientific society Sigma Xi. While sequenced particularly to complement John Alcock's Animal Behavior, this readily comprehensible and richly illustrated reader can stand alone as a sampler of the excitement and diversity of research approaches and organisms that constitute the modern study of animal behavior.

Table of Contents:
PART I: DOING SCIENCE AND STUDYING BEHAVIOR 1. Scientists, Scholars, Knaves, and Fools; E.O.Wilson 2. Conduct, Misconduct, and the Structure of Science; J.Woodward and D.Goodstein 3. The Science of Scientific Writing; G.D.Gopen and J.A.Swan 4. Behavior Programs and Evolutionary Strategies; E.Mayr 5. Why Male Ground Squirrels Disperse; K.E.Holekamp and P.W.Sherman 6. Infanticide as a Primate Reproductive Strategy; S.Blaffer Hrdy PART II: THE ADAPTIVE VALUE OF SOCIAL BEHAVIOR 7. The Honey Bee Colony as a Superorganism; T.D.Seeley 8. Group Decision Making in Honey Bee Swarms; T.D.Seeley, P.Kirk Visscher and K.M.Passino 9. Evolution for the Good of the Group; D.Sloan Wilson and E.O.Wilson 10. Making Decisions in the Family: An Evolutionary Perspective; S.T.Emlen, P.H.Wrege and N.J.Demong 11. Why Ravens Share; B.Heinrich and J.Marzluff 12. Naked Mole-Rats; R.L.Honeycutt 13. Kin Recognition in Animals; W.G.Holmes and P.W.Sherman 14. Yawning; R.R.Provine PART III: THE ADAPTIVE VALUE OF REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR 15. The Evolution of Sexual Differences in Insects; R.Thornhill and D.T.Gwynne 16. Mating Behavior and Hermaphroditism in Coral Reef Fishes; R.R.Warner 17. Animal Genitalia and Female Choice; W.G.Eberhard 18. The Lion's Mane; P.M.West 19. Prairie-Vole Partnerships; L.L.Getz and C.S.Carter 20. Avian Siblicide; D.W.Mock, H.Drummond and C.H.Stinson 21. The Strategies of Human Mating; D.M.Buss PART IV: THE EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF BEHAVIOR 22. The Evolution of Communal Nest-Weaving in Ants; B.Hölldobler and E.O.Wilson 23. Untangling the Evolution of the Web; W.A.Shear 24. Why Do Bowerbirds Build Bowers?; G.Borgia 25. Early Canid Domestication: The Farm-Fox Experiment; L.N.Trut 26. Protecting Ourselves from Food; P.W.Sherman and S.M.Flaxman PART V: THE MECHANISMS OF BEHAVIOR 27. From Society to Genes with the Honey Bee; G.E.Robinson 28. Testosterone and Aggression in Birds; J.C.Wingfield, G.F.Ball, A.M.Dufty, Jr., R.E.Hegner and M.Ramenofsky 29. Physiology of Helping in Florida Scrub-Jays; S.J.Schoech 30. Shaping Brain Sexuality; A.H.Bass 31. Aerial Defense Tactics of Flying Insects; M.May PART VI: COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR AT FOUR LEVELS OF ANALYSIS 32. Bird Song and the Problem of Honest Communication; W.A.Searcy and S.Nowicki 33. Mozart's Starling; M.J.West and A.P.King 34. Marking Loons; W.Piper, J.Mager and C.Walcott 35. Vocal Matching in Animals; K.Sewall 36. The Complex Call of the Carolina Chickadee; T.M.Freeberg, J.R.Lucas and I.Krams 37. A Bigger, Better Brain; M.Bearzi and C.Stanford

About the Author :
Paul W. Sherman is Professor of Neurobiology and Behavior at Cornell University, where he teaches courses focusing on Animal Behavior and Darwinian Medicine. He was an undergraduate at Stanford, a graduate student at Michigan, and a Miller Postdoctoral Fellow at Berkeley. Dr. Sherman has published or edited seven books and 195 papers and book chapters. His research has contributed to scientific understanding in six general areas: altruism and nepotism, kin recognition, eusociality, the evolution of sex, conservation biology (especially the concept of evolutionary traps), and Darwinian medicine (especially the adaptive significance of morning sickness, allergies, spice use, lactose intolerance, and senescence). Dr. Sherman was a Sigma Xi National Lecturer (2004-2006) and was elected a Fellow of the Animal Behavior Society (2004). In 2005, he was appointed an S. H. Weiss Presidential Fellow in recognition of effective, inspiring, and distinguished teaching. John Alcock is Regents' Professor Emeritus of Biology at Arizona State University. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University under the direction of Ernst Mayr. His research deals with the behavioral ecology of insect mating systems, with projects that have taken him from Arizona to Costa Rica and Australia. He wrote The Triumph of Sociobiology, (2001) and coauthored The Evolution of Insect Mating Systems, (1983) with Randy Thornhill. Alcock has also written seven other books on animal behavior and natural history for general audiences. One of these--In a Desert Garden, received the Burroughs' Award for natural history writing in 1998. Dr. Alcock also received the Dean's Quality Teaching Award the first year it was given at Arizona State University.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781605351957
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Edition: Revised edition
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Readings from American Scientist
  • Width: 277 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1605351954
  • Publisher Date: 20 May 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 374
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Weight: 1157 gr


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