Eytan Avital, Eva Jablonka, Avital Eytan

Animal Traditions

Behavioural Inheritance in Evolution

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Offers a unified evolutionary and developmental perspective of animal behaviour, beyond the 'selfish gene'.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 875g
• ISBN-13: 9780521662734
• ISBN-10: 0521662737
• Artikelnr.: 22381608

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. New rules for old games
2. What is pulling the strings of behaviour?
3. Learning and the behavioural inheritance system
4. Parental care - the highroad to family traditions
5. Achieving harmony between mates - the learning route
6. Parents and offspring - too much conflict?
7. Alloparental care - an additional channel of information transfer
8. The origins and persistence of group legacies
9. Darwin meets Lamarck - the co-evolution of genes and learning
10. The free phenotype
References
Species index
Subject index.