Evolutionary Behavioral Ecology is intended to be
used a text for graduate students and a sourcebook for
professional scientists seeking an understanding of the
evolutionary and ecological processes shaping behavior
across a wide array of organisms and a diverse set of
behaviors. Chapters are written by an array of leading
experts in the field, providing a core foundation, a
history of conceptual developments, and fresh insight
into the controversies and themes shaping the continuing
development of the field. Essays on adaptation,
selection, fitness, genetics, plasticity, and phylogeny
as they pertain to behavior place the field in the
broader context of ecology and evolution. These
concepts, along with a diversity of theoretical
approaches are applied to the evolution of behavior in a
many contexts, from individual decision-making of
solitary animals through to complex social interactions.
Chapters integrate conceptual and theoretical approaches
with recent empirical advances to understand the
evolution of behavior, from foraging, dealing with risk,
predator avoidance, and an array of social behaviors,
including fighting and cooperation with conspecifics and
conflict and cooperation between the sexes. Chapters
also emphasize integrative and novel approaches to
behavior, including cognitive ecology, personality,
conservation biology, the links between behavior and
evolution, the evolution of human social behavior, and
ways in which modern genetic analyses can augment the
study of behavior.
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