Courtship

副标题: An Ethological Study

ISBN: 9780202309118

出版社: Aldine Transaction

出版年: 2007-4-9

页数: 228

定价: USD 28.95

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

This concise but thorough study of courtship behavior in ?sh, birds, and arthropods is the ?rst rigorous examination of the evolutionary origins and mechanisms of courtship and its contribution to biological success. Demonstrating the fruitfulness of an empirically based, inductive approach to understanding courtship, the book also explains clearly how principles of modern evolutionary theory can be successfully employed in studying behavior.

作者简介

Margaret Bastock studied zoology at Oxford from 1946 to 1949 and became a zoology tutor at and, later, a Fellow of St. Anne's College, Oxford. She worked for her Ph.D. under Professor N. Tinbergen and through him became acquainted with the work of the chief ethologists in Europe and the United States. Her original work has concentrated on the inheritance and organization of behavior in insects, and her principal interests include all aspects of animal behavior, genetics, and evolution.

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