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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Huntingford, Felicity. Animal conflict. London ; New York : Chapman and Hall, [1987] (OCoLC)567931362 |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Felicity Huntingford; Angela K Turner |
ISBN: | 0412259206 9780412259203 0412287501 9780412287503 |
OCLC Number: | 14099406 |
Notes: | Includes indexes. |
Description: | x, 448 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Part One: Patterns of animal conflict -- Conflict in the animal world -- A survey of animal content -- Issues and concepts in the study of animal conflict -- Part Two: The causes of agonistic behaviour -- Behavioural mechanisms -- The role of horomones -- Neural mechanisms -- Three: Genetic and environmental influences -- Genetics -- Development -- Part Four: Consequences, fitness and evolutionary change -- The consequences of animal conflict -- Evolutionary history -- The behavioural ecology of animal conflict -- The biology of human aggression. |
Series Title: | Chapman and Hall animal behaviour series. |
Responsibility: | Felicity A. Huntingford and Angela K. Turner ; illustrated by Leslie M. Downie. |
Abstract:
This book is about the behaviour used by animals, humans included, to resolve conflicts of interest. It brings together for the non-specialist all the diverse aspects of aggression, including behavioural ecology, genetics, development, evolution and neurophysiology.
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