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Animal Traditions: Behavioural Inheritance in Evolution »
Authors: Eytan Avital, Eva Jablonka, Avital Eytan
ISBN-13: 9780521022118, ISBN-10: 0521022118
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: November 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Eytan Avital
Book Synopsis
Offers a unified evolutionary and developmental perspective of animal behaviour, beyond the 'selfish gene'.
Table of Contents
| Preface | ||
| Acknowledgements | ||
| 1 | New rules for old games | 1 |
| 2 | What is pulling the strings of behaviour? | 34 |
| 3 | Learning and the behavioural inheritance system | 63 |
| 4 | Parental care - the highroad to family traditions | 105 |
| 5 | Achieving harmony between mates - the learning route | 141 |
| 6 | Parents and offspring - too much conflict? | 171 |
| 7 | Alloparental care - an additional channel of information transfer | 208 |
| 8 | The origins and persistence of group legacies | 243 |
| 9 | Darwin meets Lamarck - the co-evolution of genes and learning | 304 |
| 10 | The free phenotype | 352 |
| References | 371 | |
| Index of spectes | 404 | |
| Index of subjects | 412 |
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