Economics in Nature - Social Dilemmas, Mate Choice and Biological Markets

Zusammenfassung Applying models of economic theory to evolutionary ecology has become a growing area of research in which games and markets play an important role. This volume takes a multi-disciplinary approach to compare economic behaviour in humans and other animals. It is aimed at evolutionary biologists! anthropologists! psychologists and economists. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Games and markets: economic behaviour in humans and other animals Peter Hammerstein; Part I. Economic Behavior in Social Networks: 2. Social dilemmas and human behaviour Elinor Ostrom; 3. Cooperation and collective action in animal behaviour Charles Nunn and Rebecca J. Lewis; 4. Conflict, reconciliation and negotiation in non-human primates: the value of long-term relationships Jan A. R. A. M Van Hooff; Part II. Biological Markets: 5. Biological markets: partner choice as the driving force behind the evolution of mutualisms Ronald Noë; 6. The utility of grooming in baboon troops Louise Barrett and Peter S. Henzi; 7. The cleaner fish market Redouan Bshary; 8. Modeling interspecific mutualisms as biological markets Jason D. Hoeksema and Mark W. Schwartz; Part III. Mating Markets: 9. Human mate choice strategies Boguslaw Pawlowski and Robin I. M. Dunbar; 10. How does mate choice contribute to exaggeration and diversity in sexual characters? Andrew Pomiankowski and Yoh Iwasa; 11. Information about sperm competition and the economics of sperm allocation Geoffrey A. Parker and Mike A. Ball; 12. The economics of male mating strategies Robin I. M. Dunbar.

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• Authors: Ronald Hooff Noe, Ronald Van Hooff Noe
• Assisted by: Peter Hammerstein (Editor), Hammerstein Peter (Editor), J. A. R. A. M. van Hooff (Editor), Ronald Noe (Editor), Ronald Noë (Editor), Jan A. R. A. M. Van Hooff (Editor), Van Hooff Jan A. R. A. M. (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.08.2001
• EAN: 9780521650144
• ISBN: 978-0-521-65014-4
• No. of pages: 292
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Zoology; Animal behaviour, Ethology and animal behaviour