Subjects

Subjects “...Play behavior in animals Congresses....”

Table of Contents “...An introduction to animal behavior -- Behavioral ecology and the evolution of altruism -- The evolution of social behavior --The evolution of communication -- Avoiding predators and finding food -- The evolution of habitat selection, territoriality, and migration -- The evolution of reproductive behavior -- The evolution of mating systems -- The evolution of parental care -- Proximate and ultimate causes of behavior -- The development of behavior -- Evolution, nervous systems, and behavior -- How neurons and hormones organize behavior -- The evolution of human behavior....”

Table of Contents “...The science of animal behavior -- Evolution and the study of animal behavior -- Methods for studying animal behavior -- Behavioral genetics -- Learning and cognition -- Communication -- Foraging behavior -- Antipredator behavior -- Dispersal and migration -- Habitat selection, territoriality, and aggression -- Mating behavior -- Mating systems -- Parental care -- Social behavior....”

Table of Contents “...Animals in a chemical world --...”

Table of Contents “...Animal, vegetable, or mineral? -- Microbes first -- The germ of phylogeny -- Creatures void of form -- About chaos -- Kingdoms at biology's borders -- The prokaryote and the eukaryote -- On the unity of life -- Symbiotic complexity -- The morning of molecular phylogenetics -- Roots in the genetic code -- A third form of life -- A kingdom on a molecule -- Against adaptationism -- In the capital of the new kingdom -- Out of Eden -- Big tree -- The dawn cell controversy -- Three domains -- Disputed territories -- Grappling with a worldwide web -- Entangled roots and braided lives....”

Table of Contents “...Hormones, social context and animal communication /...”

Table of Contents “...Alejandra Korstanje -- Why ancient DNA research needs taphonomy / Eva-Maria Geigl -- Bone density variation between similar animals and density variation in early life : implications for future taphonomic analysis / Robert Symmons -- Contribution to knowledge of the Pleistocene mammal-bearing deposits of the territory of Siracusa (southeastern Sicily) / Corrado Marziano and Salvatore Chilardi -- Using comparative micromammal taphonomy to test palaeoecological hypotheses : 'Ubeidiya, a Lower Pleistocene site in the Jordan Valley, Israel, as a case study / Miriam Belmaker -- Fragments of information : preliminary taphonomic results from the middle Palaeolithic breccia layers of Misliya Cave, Mount Carmel, Israel / Guy Bar-Oz ... ...”

Table of Contents “...Māori Women and Shore Whaling in Southern New Zealand / Kate Stevens and Angela Wanhalla -- Animals, Race, and the "Gospel of Kindness": The American Whaling Fleet of the Pacific World / Lissa Wadewitz -- Whales' Teeth: A Niche Commodity of the Nineteenth-Century Pacific Sperm Whaling Industry / Nancy Shoemaker -- Newspaper Stories Promoting Local Nineteenth-Century Shore-Based Whaling within the Hawaiian Archipelago / Susan A. ...”