Book description
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This textbook helped to define the field of Behavioural Ecology. In
this fourth edition the text has been completely revised, with new
chapters and many new illustrations and full colour photographs. The
theme, once again, is the influence of natural selection on behaviour
- an animal's struggle to survive and reproduce by exploiting and
competing for resources, avoiding predators, selecting mates and
caring for offspring, - and how animal societies reflect both
cooperation and conflict among individuals.
Stuart A. West has joined as a co-author bringing his own
perspectives and work on microbial systems into the book.
Written in the same engaging and lucid style as the previous
editions, the authors explain the latest theoretical ideas using
examples from micro-organisms, invertebrates and vertebrates. There
are boxed sections for some topics and marginal notes help guide the
reader. The book is essential reading for students of behavioural
ecology, animal behaviour and evolutionary biology.
Key Features:
- Long-awaited new edition of a field-defining textbook
- New chapters, illustrations and colour photographs
- New co-author
- Focuses on the influence of natural selection on behavior, and how
animal societies reflect both cooperation and conflict among individuals
“The long-awaited update to a classic in this field is now here,
presenting new directions in thinking and addressing burning
questions. Richly informed by progress in many other disciplines, such
as sensory physiology, genetics and evolutionary theory, it marks the
emergence of behavioural ecology as a fully fledged discipline…..
This is a marvellous book, written in a lucid style. A must-read for
those in the field, it is also a cornucopia of new thinking for anyone
interested in evolution and behaviour.”
Manfred Milinski, Nature, 2012
Nicholas B. Davies FRS
is Professor of Behavioural Ecology in the Department of Zoology at the
University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Pembroke College.
John R. Krebs FRS is Principal of Jesus College and Professor
in the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford, and a
member of the House of Lords.
Stuart West is Professor of Evolutionary Biology in the
Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford.
