Hormones and Animal Social Behavior / Elizabeth Adkins-Regan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adkins-Regan, Elizabeth, author.

Series:

Monographs in Behavior and Ecology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hormones.

Animal behavior.

Animal behavior--Endocrine aspects.

Social behavior in animals.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (430 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Research into the lives of animals in their natural environments has revealed a rich tapestry of complex social relationships and previously unsuspected social and mating systems. The evolution of this behavior is increasingly well understood. At the same time, laboratory scientists have made significant discoveries about how steroid and peptide hormones act on the nervous system to shape behavior. An exciting and rapidly progressing hybrid zone has developed in which these two fields are integrated, providing a fuller understanding of social behavior and the adaptive functions of hormones. This book is a guide to these fascinating connections between animal social behavior and steroid and peptide hormones--a synthesis designed to make it easier for graduate students and researchers to appreciate the excitement, engage in such integrative thinking, and understand the primary literature. Throughout, Elizabeth Adkins-Regan emphasizes concepts and principles, hypothesis testing, and critical thinking. She raises unanswered questions, providing an unparalleled source of ideas for future research. The chapter sequence is by levels of biological organization, beginning with the behavior and hormones of individuals, proceeding to social relationships and systems, and from there to development, behavioral evolution over relatively short time scales, life histories and their evolution, and finally evolution over longer time scales. The book features studies of a wide variety of wild and domestic vertebrates along with some of the most important invertebrate discoveries.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations and Tables

Preface

1. Hormonal Mechanisms

2. Mating, Fighting, Parenting, and Signaling

3. Social Relationships and Social Organization

4. Development of Sexes and Types

5. Evolutionary Change and Species Differences

6. Life Stages and Life Histories

7. Phylogeny: Conservation and Innovation

Afterword

References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-364) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780691092461

069109246X

9781400850778

1400850770

OCLC:

863672287