Authors: Emilia P. Martins
ISBN-13: 9780195092103, ISBN-10: 0195092104
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: April 1996
Edition: New Edition
University of Oregon
In the last ten years, the "comparative method" has been revolutionized by modern statistical ways of incorporating phylogenies into the design and analysis of comparative studies. The results of this revolution are particularly important in the study of animal behavior, which has relied on interspecific comparisons to infer universal trends and evolutionary patterns. The chapters of this edited volume consider the impact of modern phylogenetic comparative methods on the study of animal behavior and discuss the main issues that need to be considered in design and analysis of a comparative study, considers possible differences between the evolution of behavior and the evolution of morphology, and reviews how phylogenetic comparative studies have been used in certain areas of behavioral research.
Preface | ||
List of contributors | ||
1 | Phylogenetics in behavior: some cautions and expectations | 1 |
2 | The statistical analysis of interspecific data: A review and evaluation of phylogenetic comparative methods | 22 |
3 | How to study discrete comparative methods | 76 |
4 | The mechanistic bases of behavioral evolution: A multivariate analysis of musculoskeletal function | 104 |
5 | Geographic variation in behavior: A phylogenetic framework for comparative studies | 138 |
6 | Phylogenetic lability and rates of evolution: A comparison of behavioral, morphological and life history traits | 166 |
7 | Comparing behavioral and morphological characters as imdicators of phylogeny | 206 |
8 | The phylogenetic content of avian courtship display and song evolution | 234 |
9 | Comparative analysis of the origins and losses of eusociality: Causal mosaics and historical uniqueness | 253 |
10 | Using comparative approaches to integrate behavior and population biology | 288 |
11 | Phylogenetic Interpretations of primate socioecology: With special reference to social and ecological diversity in Macaca | 324 |
12 | Using cladistic analysis of comparative data to reconstruct the evolution of cognitive development in Hominids | 361 |
13 | Why phylogenies are necessary for comparative analysis | 399 |
Subject Index | 412 |