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Exploring animal behavior : readings from American scientist / edited by Paul W. Sherman, John Alcock.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Sunderland, Mass. : Sinauer Associates, c2010.Edition: 5th edDescription: vi, 377 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 28 cmISBN:
  • 9780878938155
  • 087893815X
Uniform titles:
  • American scientist.
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 591.5 22 SHE
Contents:
Scientists, scholars, knaves and fools / Edward O. Wilson -- Conduct, misconduct and the structure of science / James Woodward and David Goodstein -- The science of scientific writing / George D. Gopen and Judith A. Swan -- Infanticide as a primate reproductive strategy / Sarah Blaffer Hrdy -- Why male ground squirrels disperse / Kay E. Holekamp and Paul W. Sherman -- Bird song and the problem of honest communication / William A. Searcy and Stephen Nowicki -- Mozart's starling / Meredith J. West and Andrew P. King -- UV lights up marine fish / Jill P. Zamzow, Peter A. Nelson and George S. Losey -- Animal thinking / Donald R. Griffin -- What do animals think about numbers? / Marc D. Hauser -- Testosterone and aggression in birds / John C. Wingfield [and others] -- Physiology of helping in Florida scrub-jays / Stephan J. Schoech -- Shaping brain sexuality / Andrew H. Bass -- Aerial defense tactics of flying insects / Mike May -- The evolution of communal nest-weaving in ants / Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson -- Untangling the evolution of the web / William A. Shear -- Why do bowerbirds build bowers? / Gerald Borgia -- Early canid domestication: the farm-fox experiment / Lyudmila N. Trut -- Protecting ourselves from food / Paul W. Sherman and Samuel M. Flaxman -- The evolution of sexual differences in insects / Randy Thornhill and Darryl T. Gwynne -- Mating behavior and hermaphroditism in coral reef fishes / Robert R. Warner -- Animal genitalia and female choice / William G. Eberhard -- The lion's mane / Peyton M. West -- Prairie-vole partnerships / Lowell L. Getz and C. Sue Carter -- Avian siblicide / Douglas W. Mock, Hugh Drummond and Christopher H. Stinson -- The strategies of human mating / David M. Buss -- Why ravens share / Bernd Heinrich and John Marzluff -- Making decisions in the family: an evolutionary perspective / Stephen T. Emlen, Peter H. Wrege and Natalie J. Demong -- Naked mole-rats / Rodney L. Honeycutt -- Kin recognition in animals / Warren G. Holmes and Paul W. Sherman -- Yawning / Robert R. Provine -- The adaptive value of religious ritual / Richard Sosis -- The cognitive psychology of belief in the supernatural / Jesse M. Bering -- From society to genes with the honey bee / Gene E. Robinson -- Group decision making in honey bee swarms / Thomas D. Seeley, P. Kirk Visscher and Kevin M. Passino -- Evolution "for the good of the group" / David Sloan Wilson and Edward O. Wilson -- The essence of royalty: honey bee queen pheromone / Mark L. Winston and Keith N. Slessor -- The honey bee colony as a superorganism / Thomas D. Seeley.
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Scientists, scholars, knaves and fools / Edward O. Wilson --
Conduct, misconduct and the structure of science / James Woodward and David Goodstein --
The science of scientific writing / George D. Gopen and Judith A. Swan --
Infanticide as a primate reproductive strategy / Sarah Blaffer Hrdy --
Why male ground squirrels disperse / Kay E. Holekamp and Paul W. Sherman --
Bird song and the problem of honest communication / William A. Searcy and Stephen Nowicki --
Mozart's starling / Meredith J. West and Andrew P. King --
UV lights up marine fish / Jill P. Zamzow, Peter A. Nelson and George S. Losey --
Animal thinking / Donald R. Griffin --
What do animals think about numbers? / Marc D. Hauser --
Testosterone and aggression in birds / John C. Wingfield [and others] --
Physiology of helping in Florida scrub-jays / Stephan J. Schoech --
Shaping brain sexuality / Andrew H. Bass --
Aerial defense tactics of flying insects / Mike May --
The evolution of communal nest-weaving in ants / Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson --
Untangling the evolution of the web / William A. Shear --
Why do bowerbirds build bowers? / Gerald Borgia --
Early canid domestication: the farm-fox experiment / Lyudmila N. Trut --
Protecting ourselves from food / Paul W. Sherman and Samuel M. Flaxman --
The evolution of sexual differences in insects / Randy Thornhill and Darryl T. Gwynne --
Mating behavior and hermaphroditism in coral reef fishes / Robert R. Warner --
Animal genitalia and female choice / William G. Eberhard --
The lion's mane / Peyton M. West --
Prairie-vole partnerships / Lowell L. Getz and C. Sue Carter --
Avian siblicide / Douglas W. Mock, Hugh Drummond and Christopher H. Stinson --
The strategies of human mating / David M. Buss --
Why ravens share / Bernd Heinrich and John Marzluff --
Making decisions in the family: an evolutionary perspective / Stephen T. Emlen, Peter H. Wrege and Natalie J. Demong --
Naked mole-rats / Rodney L. Honeycutt --
Kin recognition in animals / Warren G. Holmes and Paul W. Sherman --
Yawning / Robert R. Provine --
The adaptive value of religious ritual / Richard Sosis --
The cognitive psychology of belief in the supernatural / Jesse M. Bering --
From society to genes with the honey bee / Gene E. Robinson --
Group decision making in honey bee swarms / Thomas D. Seeley, P. Kirk Visscher and Kevin M. Passino --
Evolution "for the good of the group" / David Sloan Wilson and Edward O. Wilson --
The essence of royalty: honey bee queen pheromone / Mark L. Winston and Keith N. Slessor --
The honey bee colony as a superorganism / Thomas D. Seeley.

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