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This anthology contains 38 articles published since 1977 in American Scientist, the journal of the scientific society Sigma Xi. The richly illustrated articles provide a picture of how behaviourists think about and conduct their research, as well as insights into the behaviour of selected vertebrate and invertebrate species.
List of contents
PART I: DOING SCIENCE
Scientists, Scholars, Knaves, and Fools; E.O.Wilson
Conduct, Misconduct, and the Structure of Science; J.Woodward & D.Goodstein
The Science of Scientific Writing; G.D.Gopen & J.A.Swan
Infanticide as a Primate Reproductive Strategy; S.Blaffer Hrdy
PART II: THE MECHANISMS OF BEHAVIOR
Why Male Ground Squirrels Disperse; K.E.Holekamp & P.W.Sherman
Bird Song and the Problem of Honest Communication; W.A.Searcy & S.Nowicki
Mozart's Starling; M.J.West & A.P.King
UV Lights up Marine Fish; J.P.Zamzow , P.A.Nelson & G.S.Losey
Animal Thinking; D.R.Griffin
What Do Animals Think about Numbers?; M.D.Hauser
Testosterone and Aggression in Birds; J.C.Wingfield , G.F.Ball , A.M.Dufty, Jr. , R.E.Hegner & M.Ramenofsky
Physiology of Helping in Florida Scrub-Jays; S.J.Schoech
Shaping Brain Sexuality; A.H.Bass
Aerial Defense Tactics of Flying Insects; M.May
PART III: THE EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF BEHAVIOR
The Evolution of Communal Nest-Weaving in Ants; B.Hölldobler & E.O.Wilson
Untangling the Evolution of the Web; W.A.Shear
Why Do Bowerbirds Build Bowers?; G.Borgia
Early Canid Domestication: The Farm-Fox Experiment; L.N.Trut
Protecting Ourselves from Food; P.W.Sherman & S.M.Flaxman
PART IV: THE ADAPTIVE VALUE OF REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR
The Evolution of Sexual Differences in Insects; R.Thornhill & D.T.Gwynne
Mating Behavior and Hermaphroditism in Coral Reef Fishes; R.R.Warner
Animal Genitalia and Female Choice; W.G.Eberhard
The Lion's Mane; P.M.West
Prairie-Vole Partnerships; L.L.Getz & C.S.Carter
Avian Siblicide; D.W.Mock, H.Drummond & C.H.Stinson
The Strategies of Human Mating; D.M.Buss
PART V: THE ADAPTIVE VALUE OF SOCIAL BEHAVIOR
Why Ravens Share; B.Heinrich & J.Marzluff
Making Decisions in the Family: An Evolutionary Perspective; S.T.Emlen , P.H.Wrege & N.J.Demong
Naked Mole-Rats; R.L.Honeycutt
Kin Recognition in Animals; W.G.Holmes & P.W.Sherman
Yawning; R.R.Provine
The Adaptive Value of Religious Ritual; R.Sosis
The Cognitive Psychology of Belief in the Supernatural; J.M.Bering
PART VI: HONEY BEE BEHAVIOR AT MULTIPLE LEVELS OF ANALYSIS
From Society to Genes with the Honey Bee; G.E.Robinson
Group Decision Making in Honey Bee Swarms; T.D.Seeley , P.Kirk Visscher & K.M.Passino
Evolution for the Good of the Group; D.Sloan Wilson & E.O.Wilson
The Essence of Royalty: Honey Bee Queen Pheromone; M.L.Winston & K.N.Slessor
The Honey Bee Colony as a Superorganism; T.D.Seeley
