New title: Essays in Animal Behaviour

Essays in Animal Behaviour - edited by Jeffrey Lucas and Leigh Simmons

To celebrate the recent 50th anniversary of its publication, the journal Animal Behaviour published a series of essays by prominent behaviorists each presenting a critical and celebratory summary of their own specialties- a roll-call of the most influential names in the field. These contributions are both retrospective and prospective, asking where the field of behavior has been, where we are now and where we are going?

Essays in Animal Behaviour presents revised versions of these 12 original essays - plus seven entirely new ones to offer a glimpse of the study of behavior which looks in all directions. Blending history, present and future, the essays capture the development, the relevance, the excitement and the challenges of a subject that entwines and integrates some of the greatest themes in modern biology.

Unique personal reflections on the history of animal behavior are provided from John Alcock, Stuart and Jeanne Altmann, Steve Arnold, Geoff Parker, and Felicity Huntingford. Gene Robinson discusses the enormous promise of modern molecular biology in studying the genetic basis of social behavior.

The development of behavior is covered by Bennett Galef, Judy Stamps, Patrick Bateson, and Meredith West, Andrew King, and David White.

The adaptive significance of behavior, emphasing sexual selection and animal communication, is addressed by Malte Andersson, Andrew Barnes and Linda Partridge, Patricia Gowaty, Michael Greenfield, Peter Slater, Roswitha and Wolfgang Wiltschko, and Amotz Zahavi.

In the last chapter, Marian Dawkins shows us the importance of studying animal behavior for animal welfare.

This title is available in the CZS-BZ Library collection via SWAN: http://swan.sls.lib.il.us. QL 751.E65 2005