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 …

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 …

Behavioral ecology is the study of" how behavior is influenced by natural selection in
relation to ecological conditions'(p. ix). The first edition of this book (1978) defined the field; …

Human behavioural ecology emerged in the mid-1970s as a result of applying the theory of
evolution by natural selection in order to understand human behaviour. Using explicit …

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 …

Human beings persist in an extraordinary range of ecological settings, in the process
exhibiting enormous behavioural diversity, both within and between populations. People …

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 …

Since the 1990s, behavioural ecologists have largely abandoned some traditional areas of
interest, such as optimal foraging, but many long-standing challenges remain. Moreover, the …

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This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent
chapters of this book. The book provides a broad overview of the questions addressed by …