Behavioral ecology and sociobiology are relatively new scientific disciplines. They rose to
prominence in the 1960s and 1970s as parts of other disciplines, and then solidified their …

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 …

Game theory has revolutionized the study of animal behavior. The fundamental principle of
evolutionary game theory--that the strategy adopted by one individual depends on the …

Seldom has a field of science excited so much enthusiasm as has sociobiology while at the
same time inspiring such vituperation. To biologists working in sociobiology the term …

Behavioral ecology and ecology have projects in common. Community ecology can provide
behavioral ecology with the tools to ask realistic questions about the current action of natural …

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as Science Geoff A. Parker Population and Evolutionary Biology Research Group School of …

Genuinely evolutionary explanations of human social behavior are only dimly grasped by
most social scientists. However, with increasing frequency, such approaches are yielding …

It is our goal in this text to use evolutionary principles as a unifying theme for exposing
students to a number of approaches to the field of animal behavior and to demonstrate that …

Understanding behavior has been a crucial aim for philosophers and scientists since
Aristotle and, particularly, Charles Darwin. In the first half of the 20th century, a coherent …