Author: M. MoynihanPublisher:
ISBN: 9781877973284
Category : Adaptation (Biology)
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Geographic Variation in Social Behavior and in Adaptations to Competition Among Andean Birds
Author: M. MoynihanPublisher:
ISBN: 9781877973284
Category : Adaptation (Biology)
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Geographical Variation in Birds of Java
Author: G. F. MeesLevels of Selection in Evolution
Author: Laurent KellerPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691207011
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
Ever since the groundbreaking work of George Williams, W. D. Hamilton, and Richard Dawkins, evolutionary biologists have recognized that natural selection generally does not operate for the good of the group, but rather for the good of lower-level units such as the individual, the cell, even the gene. One of the fundamental problems of biology is: what keeps competition between these various levels of natural selection from destroying the common interests to be gained from cooperation? In this volume twelve prominent scientists explore this question, presenting a comprehensive survey of the current theoretical and empirical research in evolutionary biology. Recent studies show that at many levels of biological organization, mechanisms have evolved to prevent potential conflict in natural selection. Editor Laurent Keller's aim in this book is to bring together leading researchers from all biological disciplines to outline these potential conflicts and discuss how they are resolved. A multi-level approach of this kind allows important insights into the evolution of life, as well as bridging the long-standing conceptual chasm between molecular and organismal biologists. The chapters here follow a rigorous theoretical framework, giving the book an overall synergy that is unique to multi-authored books. The contributors, in addition to the editor, are H. Charles J. Godfray, Edward Allen Herre, Dawn M. Kitchen, Egbert Giles Leigh, Jr., Catherine M. Lessells, Richard E. Michod, Leonard Nunney, Craig Packer, Andrew Pomiankowski, H. Kern Reeve, John Maynard Smith, and Eörs Szathmáry.
Tropical Forest Ecology
Author: Egbert Giles LeighPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195096037
Category : Barro Colorado Island (Panama).
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
How do tropical forests stay green with their abundance of herbivores? Why do tropical forests have such a diversity of plants and animals? And what role does mutualism play in the ecology of tropical forests?
National Agricultural Library Catalog
Author: National Agricultural Library (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Nature Strange and Beautiful
Author: Egbert Giles Leigh, Jr.Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300244622
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
A beautifully written exploration of how cooperation shaped life on earth, from its single-celled beginnings to complex human societies In this rich, wide-ranging, beautifully illustrated volume, Egbert Leigh explores the results of billions of years of evolution at work. Leigh, who has spent five decades on Panama's Barro Colorado Island reflecting on the organization of various amazingly diverse tropical ecosystems, now shows how selection on "selfish genes" gives rise to complex modes of cooperation and interdependence. With the help of such artists as the celebrated nature photographer Christian Ziegler, natural history illustrator Deborah Miriam Kaspari, and Damond Kyllo, Leigh explains basic concepts of evolutionary biology, ranging from life's single-celled beginnings to the complex societies humans have formed today. The book covers a range of topics, focusing on adaptation, competition, mutualism, heredity, natural selection, sexual selection, genetics, and language. Leigh's reflections on evolution, competition, and cooperation show how the natural world becomes even more beautiful when viewed in the light of evolution.
Publications of the Nuttall Ornithological Club
Author: G. F. MeesThe Social Regulation of Competition and Aggression in Animals
Author: M. MoynihanPublisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
An acute observer of animal behavior, Martin H. Moynihan uses a wide array of comparative studies to detail the diversity, mechanics, and evolutionary origins of the means by which animals keep their aggression in check. He follows birds, primates, and cephalopods in their natural settings, analyzing not only such simple behaviors as habituation and retreat but also more intricate interactions such as redirection attacks, excluding other animals from opportunities, leaving scent marks, and engaging in dominance relationships. Moynihan demonstrates that signaling is fundamental to the evolution of strategies for regulating aggression, and he describes how divergent social signals can accomplish similar ends as well as the reverse - how homologous signals can play different roles depending on the particular circumstances of each social confrontation. He also explores the ecological factors that lie behind the geographical distribution of some signalling patterns.
The Emu
Author: Monographic Series
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Monographic series
Languages : en
Pages : 948
Book Description