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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Natural Selection, Ecology and Behaviour | |
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| Watching and wondering | |
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| Natural selection | |
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| Genes and behaviour | |
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| Selfish individuals or group advantage? | |
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| Phenotypic plasticity: climate change and breeding times | |
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| Behaviour, ecology and evolution | |
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| Summary | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Topics for discussion | |
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| Testing Hypotheses in Behavioural Ecology | |
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| The comparative approach | |
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| Breeding behaviour of gulls in relation to predation risk | |
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| Social organization of weaver birds | |
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| Social organization in African ungulates | |
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| Limitations of early comparative studies | |
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| Comparative approach to primate ecology and behaviour | |
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| Using phylogenies in comparative analysis | |
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| The comparative approach reviewed | |
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| Experimental studies of adaptation | |
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| Summary | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Topics for discussion | |
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| Economic Decisions and the Individual | |
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| The economics of carrying a load | |
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| The economics of prey choice | |
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| Sampling and information | |
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| The risk of starvation | |
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| Environmental variability, body reserves and food storing | |
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| Food storing birds: from behavioural ecology to neuroscience | |
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| The evolution of cognition | |
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| Feeding and danger: a trade-off | |
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| Social learning | |
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| Optimality models and behaviour: an overview | |
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| Summary | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Topics for discussion | |
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| Predators versus Prey: Evolutionary Arms Races | |
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| Red Queen evolution | |
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| Predators versus cryptic prey | |
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| Enhancing camouflage | |
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| Warning colouration: aposematism | |
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| Mimicry | |
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| Trade-offs in prey defences | |
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| Cuckoos versus hosts | |
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| Summary | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Topics for discussion | |
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| Competing for Resources | |
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| The Hawk�Dove game | |
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| Competition by exploitation: the ideal free distribution | |
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| Competition by resource defence: the despotic distribution | |
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| The ideal free distribution with unequal competitors | |
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| The economics of resource defence | |
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| Producers and scroungers | |
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| Alternative mating strategies and tactics | |
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| ESS thinking | |
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| Animal personalities | |
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| Summary | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Topics for discussion | |
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| Living in Groups | |
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| How grouping can reduce predation | |
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| How grouping can improve foraging | |
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| Evolution of group living: shoaling in guppies | |
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| Group size and skew | |
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| Group decision making | |
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| Summary | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Topics for discussion | |
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| Sexual Selection, Sperm Competition and Sexual Conflict | |
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| Males and females | |
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| Parental investment and sexual competition | |
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| Why do females invest more in offspring care than do males? | |
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| Evidence for sexual selection | |
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| Why are females choosy? | |
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| Genetic benefits from female choice: two hypotheses | |
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| Testing the hypotheses for genetic benefits | |
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| Sexual selection in females and male choice | |
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| Sex differences in competition | |
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| Sperm competition | |
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| Constraints on mate choice and extra-pair matings | |
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| Sexual conflict | |
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| Sexual conflict: who wins? | |
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| Chase-away sexual selection | |
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| Summary | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Topics for discussion | |
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| Parental Care and Family Conflicts | |
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| Evolution of parental care | |
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| Parental investment: a parent�s optimum | |