Behavioural ecology: natural history as science Page 36 3 Behavioural Ecology: Natural History
as Science Geoff A. Parker Population and Evolutionary Biology Research Group School of …

Animal Traditions maintains that the assumption that the selection of genes supplies both a
sufficient explanation of the evolution and a true description of its course is, despite its …

The public profile of animal behavior research is out of all proportion to the number of
biologists who engage in this kind of work, or the share of funding which they receive. The …

The genomic revolution is visible in all parts of biology, and behavioral ecology is no
exception. New sequencing techniques allow us to examine the genome at an …

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 …

The study of animal behaviour, particularly from evolutionary and ecological viewpoints, has
been one of the major growing points in biology over the last 10 to 15 years. The degree of …

Highlights•The rise of specialized subdisciplines of biology brought the demise of natural
history research.•A new natural history of animal behaviour combines field and modern lab …

The central problem in the history of animal behavior has been the inability to perceive the
phenotype as the result of an interaction between genome and environment, despite the …

Why isblood thicker than water'? Are we innately violent or pacific? What is the best sex
ratio? Why are plants and animals sexual? Why do we grow old and die? Over what do our …

Intended for graduate and upper level undergraduate courses in behavioural ecology where
students are already familiar with the basic ideas, this book continues to define the subject …