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 …

This work is intended to portray the interrelationship of heredity, individual development, and
the evolution of species in a way that can be understood by nonspecialists. In striving to offer …

The mid to late 1970s witnessed an insurrection within evolutionary biology: Starting within
the field of animal behaviour, it was the driving force behind the sociobiological revolution …

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 …

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 …

By the mid-twentieth century (thus following the 'Modern Synthesis' in evolutionary biology),
the behavioural sciences offered only the sketchy beginnings of a scientific literature …

The past decade has seen an upsurge of interest in the application of evolutionary thinking
to the study of human behavior. This introductory book provides an overview of the key …

The idea that behaviour has played an important role in evolution has had its ups and
downs over the past two centuries. Now it appears to be up once again. Lamarck can claim …

In The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins crystallized the gene's eye view of evolution
developed by WD Hamilton and others. The book provoked widespread and heated debate …

The controversy that swirled around behavioural genetics research during the 1970s has
largely faded. During the 1980s and especially the 1990s, the behavioural sciences became …