Unravelling Animal Behaviour

A concise and readable introduction to the subject with particular emphasis on understanding evolutionary theories and how they have operated in nature to produce the behaviours exhibited by animals.

List of contents

1. Adaptation    2. Optimality  3. Inclusive Fitness  4. Genes and Innate Behaviour  5. Communication  6. Sex and Sexual Selection  7. The Machinery of Behaviour  8. Cognitive Ethology  9. Consciousness  10. Animal Behaviour and Human Behaviour

Summary

A concise and readable introduction to the subject with particular emphasis on understanding evolutionary theories and how they have operated in nature to produce the behaviours exhibited by animals.

Product details

• Authors: Marian Stamp Dawkins
• Publisher: Pearson Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1995
• EAN: 9780582218758
• ISBN: 978-0-582-21875-8
• No. of pages: 176
• Weight: 540 g
• Series: Longman; Longman
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Zoology