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The Evolution of Parental Care

Kolliker, MathiasNOSSUB (, Department of Environmental Sciences, Zoology and Evolution, University of Basel, Switzerland)

The Evolution of Parental Care

The Evolution of Parental Care

The Evolution of Parental Care

 

Parental care includes a wide variety of traits that enhance offspring development and survival. This novel book provides a fresh perspective on the current state of the study of the evolution of parental care, written by some of the top researchers in the field, and taking a broad taxonomic approach.


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Beschrijving The Evolution of Parental Care

Parental care includes a wide variety of traits that enhance offspring development and survival. It is taxonomically widespread and is central to the maintenance of biodiversity through its close association with other phenomena such as sexual selection, life-history evolution, sex allocation, sociality, cooperation and conflict, growth and development, genetic architecture, and phenotypic plasticity.

This novel book provides a fresh perspective on the study of the evolution of parental care based on contributions from some of the top researchers in the field. It provides evidence that the dynamic nature of family interactions, and particularly the potential for co-evolution among family members, has contributed to the great diversity of forms of parental care and life-histories across as well as within taxa.

The Evolution of Parental Care aims to stimulate students and researchers alike to pursue exciting new directions in this fascinating and important area of behavioural and evolutionary biology. It will be of relevance and use to those working in the fields of animal behaviour, ecology, evolution, and genetics, as well as related disciplines such as psychology and sociology.


ISBN
9780199692576
Pagina's
378
Verschenen
NUR
922
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Hardback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
OUP Oxford

Biologie algemeen