Sociobiology : the new synthesis /

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 and fellows of the international Animal Behavior Society the most important book on animal behavior of all time, Soci...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wilson, Edward O. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [2000]
Edition:Twenty-fifth anniversary edition.
Subjects:
Animal > 2017 > Bildband
Social behavior in animals.
Sociobiology.
Sociobiology
Comportement social chez les animaux.
Sociobiologie.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Evolution.
Soziobiologie
Sozialverhalten
Tiere
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The morality of the gene
  • Elementary concepts of sociobiology
  • The prime movers of social evolution
  • The relevant principles of population biology
  • Group selection and altruism
  • Group size, reproduction, and time-energy budgets
  • The development and modification of social behavior
  • Communication: basic principles
  • Communication: functions and complex systems
  • Communication: origins and evolution
  • Aggression
  • Social spacing, including territory
  • Dominance systems
  • Roles and castes
  • Sex and society
  • Parental care
  • Social symbioses
  • The four pinnacles of social evolution
  • The colonial microorganisms and invertebrates
  • The social insects
  • The cold-blooded vertebrates
  • The birds
  • Evolutionary trends within the mammals
  • The ungulates and elephants
  • The carnivores
  • The nonhuman primates
  • Man: from sociobiology to sociology.

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