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Hormones and Animal Social Behavior
Elizabeth Adkins-Regan
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Description for Hormones and Animal Social Behavior
Paperback. A guide to the connections between animal social behavior and steroid and peptide hormones. It emphasizes concepts and principles, hypothesis testing, and critical thinking. It also features studies of a variety of wild and domestic vertebrates along with some of the important invertebrate discoveries. Series: Monographs in Behavior and Ecology. Num Pages: 416 pages, 13 halftones. 35 line illus. 3 tables. BIC Classification: RG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 632.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
Series
Monographs in Behavior and Ecology
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691092478
SKU
V9780691092478
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About Elizabeth Adkins-Regan
Elizabeth Adkins-Regan is Professor of Psychology and Professor of Neurobiology and Behavior at Cornell University.
Reviews for Hormones and Animal Social Behavior
"Elizabeth Adkins-Regan takes the reader sledding from brain behavior and from hormones to gene expression, up and down through levels of analysis that often change within a single sentence."
Ellen D. Ketterson, Science "Hormones and Animal Social Behavior masterfully achieves Adkins-Regan's goal of integrating behavioral endocrinology with ecological and evolutionary studies... I predict that this outstanding book will soon become a ... Read more
Ellen D. Ketterson, Science "Hormones and Animal Social Behavior masterfully achieves Adkins-Regan's goal of integrating behavioral endocrinology with ecological and evolutionary studies... I predict that this outstanding book will soon become a ... Read more