Parental care: evolution, mechanisms, and adaptive significance
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: San Diego Academic Press © 1996
Series:Advances in the study of behavior v. 25
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Online Access:FAW01
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Advances in the Study of Behavior presents its first thematic volume, focusing on the physiological and behavioral mechanisms underlying parental care. The book discusses parental care both within and across taxa, with coverage of invertebrates and early vertebrates, fishes, amphibia, reptiles, mammals, birds, and nonhuman primates. A running theme throughout the chapters shows that parental care is anchored to the ecology, reproductive physiology, and embryonic development of a species. Coverage also includes mechanisms of parental care, including analysis of the stimuli that parents respond
Physical Description:xix, 715 pages
ISBN:9780080582863
0080582869
0120045257
9780120045259

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