Evolutionary Behavioral Ecology

✍ Scribed by Westneat, David(Editor);Fox, Charles

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Year: 2010;2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 660
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Evolutionary Behavioral Ecology is intended to be used as 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 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. The material emphasizes 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.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 10
Contributors......Page 14
Section I. Foundations......Page 20
1. Ingenious Ideas: The History of Behavioral Ecology......Page 22
2. Adaptation......Page 35
Box 2.1. Optimality Models......Page 45
3. Behavioral Concepts of Selection......Page 51
4. What Is Fitness, and How Do We Measure It?......Page 65
5. The Genetic Basis of Behavior......Page 90
Box 5.1. A Brief Introduction to Quantitative Genetics......Page 94
Box 5.2. Diversity of Sex-Determining Mechanisms......Page 100
6. Behavior as Phenotypic Plasticity......Page 109
Box 6.1. Contrasting Quantitative Genetic Models for the Evolution of Plasticity......Page 111
Box 6.2. Contrasting Statistical Methods for Studying Phenotypic Plasticity......Page 115
7. Evolution of Behavior: Phylogeny and the Origin of Present-Day Diversity......Page 127
Box 7.1. Comparative Methods......Page 131
Section II. Decision Making......Page 148
8. Decision Theory......Page 150
Box 8.1. A DSV Model of Clam Life History Decisions......Page 159
9. Information Use and Sensory Ecology......Page 167
Box 9.1. How Sensory Systems Work: Vision as an Example......Page 170
10. Information Processing: The Ecology and Evolution of Cognitive Abilities......Page 181
Box 10.1. Testing Cognition in the Field......Page 182
Section III. Ecology of Behavior......Page 194
11. Foraging Theory......Page 196
Box 11.1. Allocating Eggs among Multiple Hosts by Parasitic Insects......Page 199
12. Managing Risk: The Perils of Uncertainty......Page 213
Box 12.1. Fitness Consequences and Attitudes toward Risk......Page 216
Box 12.2. The Asset Protection Principle......Page 218
13. Predation Risk and Behavioral Life History......Page 226
Section IV. Social Behavior......Page 242
14. Interacting Phenotypes and Indirect Genetic Effects......Page 244
Box 14.1. Social Selection......Page 245
Box 14.2. An Interacting Phenotypes Perspective on Kin Selection......Page 252
Box 14.3. Social Effects and the Response to Group Selection......Page 260
15. Contest Behavior......Page 265
Box 15.1. The Hawk-Dove Game and Evolutionary Stable Strategies......Page 267
16. Signaling......Page 285
Box 16.1. Game Trees......Page 288
17. Behavior in Groups......Page 304
Box 17.1. Mechanisms of Dominance Hierarchy Formation......Page 314
Box 17.2. Reproductive Skew......Page 319
18. Altruism and Cooperation......Page 327
Box 18.1. Use and Abuse of Altruism......Page 329
Box 18.2. Hamilton’s Rule......Page 331
Box 18.3. How to Analyze a Kin Selection Model......Page 333
19. Evolution of Complex Societies......Page 346
Box 19.1. Haplodiploid Pedigree and Relatedness......Page 349
Section V. Reproductive Behavior......Page 360
20. Sexual Selection......Page 362
Box 20.1. Anisogamy and the Parasitic Nature of the Origins of Sperm......Page 365
Box 20.2. Sex Allocation Theory and the Fisher Condition......Page 370
21. Sexual Selection in External Fertilizers......Page 384
22. Postcopulatory Sexual Selection......Page 398
Box 22.1. Multiple Mating by Females......Page 399
Box 22.2. Ejaculate Expenditure and Allocation Models......Page 402
23. Sexual Conflict......Page 419
Box 23.1. Key Lessons from Sexual Conflict Theory......Page 420
Box 23.2. Sexual Conflict as Social Selection: Insights from Selection Theory......Page 422
Box 23.3. Sexual Conflict Can Fuel Evolutionary Change Leading to Reproductive Isolation......Page 424
24. Mate Choice......Page 435
Box 24.1. Sensory Bias......Page 443
25. Alternative Mating Strategies......Page 453
26. Parental Care......Page 470
Box 26.1. Parental Care and Life History......Page 471
Box 26.2. Parent-Offspring Conflict......Page 475
Box 26.3. Adaptive Offspring Sex Ratios......Page 480
Section VI. Extensions......Page 488
27. Behavioral Ecology and Speciation......Page 490
Box 27.1. Habitat Preferences and the Formation of New Species......Page 492
28. Genomic Approaches to Behavioral Ecology and Evolution......Page 507
Box 28.1. Sequencing Technologies......Page 510
Box 28.2. High-Throughput Gene Expression Analysis......Page 511
Box 28.3. Single Gene Expression Analysis......Page 517
Box 28.4. Ecological Genomic Studies......Page 522
29. Decision Making, Environmental Change, and Population Persistence......Page 525
30. Behavioral Syndromes......Page 535
31. Evolution and Human Behavior......Page 550
Box 31.1. Modularity in Human Psychology......Page 553
References......Page 568
A......Page 640
B......Page 641
C......Page 642
D......Page 644
F......Page 645
G......Page 646
I......Page 648
L......Page 649
M......Page 650
O......Page 651
P......Page 652
R......Page 654
S......Page 656
T......Page 659
Z......Page 660