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 …

Molecular genetic studies of group kin composition and local genetic structure in social
organisms are becoming increasingly common. A conceptual and mathematical framework …

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 …

One way in which a new organismic character can originate is via allelic replacement: a
mutant genetic allele increases in frequency under selection favouring the affected …

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" Why isn's all life pond-scum? Why are there multimillion-celled, long-lived monsters like us,
built from tens of thousands of cooperating genes? Mark Ridley presents a new explanation …

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 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 …

Traditional approaches to the study of behaviour have typically assumed that behavioural
patterns, especially elements of reproductive behaviour, are invariant within species. Recent …

When this classic work was first published in 1975, it created a new discipline and started a
tumultuous round in the age-old nature versus nurture debate. Although voted by officers …