Evolution of Animal Behavior Paleontological and Field Approaches [Hardcover]

This volume highlights current research in the field of animal behavior, with an emphasis on evolutionary perspectives. The contributors represent paleontological, field, and experimental approaches. They focus on a series of studies that confront wide-ranging issues, including sexual selection, mate choice, differential parental investment, apparent altruism, cooperative behavior, and the relevance of phylogenetic constraints and historical information. The volume will be of special interest to evolutionary biologists, behavioral ecologists, and paleontologists.

I: Introduction
1. Evolution and Behavior,Jennifer A. Kitchell and Matthew Nitecki
II: Historical Approaches to the Evolution of Behavior
2. Homology, Analogy, and the Evolution of Behavior,George V. Lauder
3. Social and Unsocial Behavior in Dinosaurs,John H. Ostrom
4. Evolution of Behavior as Expressed in Marine Trace Fossils,Adolf Seilacher
5. The Evolution of Predator-Prey Behavior: Naticid Gastropods and Their Molluscan Prey,Jennifer A. Kitchell
III: Field and Experimental Approaches to the Evolution of Behavior
6. Relative Parental Contribution of the Sexes to Their Offspring and the Operation of Sexual Selection,Randy Thornhill
7. Demographic Routes to Cooperative Breeding in some New World Jays,John W. Fitzpatrick and Glen E. Woolfenden
8. Parent-Offspring Interactions in Arthropoid Primates: An Evolutionary Perspective,Jeanne Altmann
Index

[This] book is unusual in that it gives equal weight to history and process....The selection of topics ranges widely over different kinds of questions, methods, and animals. --BioScience

Provide[s] useful reviews spiced with new findings and interpretations. --Biologist