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Modelling in Behavioural Ecology
Dennis . Ed(S): Lendrem
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Description for Modelling in Behavioural Ecology
Paperback. This book describes to the advanced student how models of animal behaviour are developed, why they are developed and how such models are changed, elaborated and eventually replaced. Editor(s): Lendrem, Dennis. Series: Studies in Behavioural Adaptation Series. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: YQS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 355.
In the early years of this century a Scottish doctor speculated on the evolutionary origin of human tears. It seemed to him that with the increase in brain size and cognitive powers of our early ancestors many events in the struggle for existence would be just too distressing to observe. How comforting then, for the mother, distraught by the sight of her child being devoured by a lion, to cloud her vision with a flood of tears! Just so, though if the good doctor had pondered further, the following picture might have occurred to him, comfortable in his speculative armchair, ... Read more
In the early years of this century a Scottish doctor speculated on the evolutionary origin of human tears. It seemed to him that with the increase in brain size and cognitive powers of our early ancestors many events in the struggle for existence would be just too distressing to observe. How comforting then, for the mother, distraught by the sight of her child being devoured by a lion, to cloud her vision with a flood of tears! Just so, though if the good doctor had pondered further, the following picture might have occurred to him, comfortable in his speculative armchair, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers Group Netherlands
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Behavioural Adaptation Series
Number of Pages
214
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9780709941194
SKU
V9780709941194
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