Full Description
Advances in the Study of Behavior, Volume 52, provides users with the latest insights in this ever-evolving field. Users will find new information on a variety of species, including ecological determinants of sex roles and female sexual selection, copulatory behavior and genital morphology in vertebrates, proximate and ultimate influences on social behavior, and more. Sample chapters in this release include Ecological determinants of sex roles and female sexual selection, Sensory information in social insects, How the material basis of colors impacts how they evolve, participate in behavioral interactions, and interface with other life history characters, Fiddler crabs, the Evolution of female coloration, and more.
Contents
Ecological determinants of sex roles and female sexual selection
Robin M. Hare and Leigh W. Simmons
Integrating nutritional and behavioral ecology: Mutual benefits and new Frontiers
Nathan I. Morehouse, David Raubenheimer, Adam Kay and Susan M. Bertram
Copulatory behavior and its relationship to genital morphology
Patricia L.R. Brennan and Dara N. Orbach
Evolution of female coloration: What have we learned from birds in general and blue tits in particular
Claire Doutrelant, Amélie Fargevieille and Arnaud Grégoire
Variation, plasticity, and alternative mating tactics: Revisiting what we know about the socially monogamous prairie vole
Jesus E. Madrid, Karen J. Parker and Alexander G. Ophir
Can't see the "hood" for the trees: Can avian cooperative breeding currently be understood using the phylogenetic comparative method?
Andrew Cockburn
