Download or read book Animal Contests written by Ian C. W. Hardy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contests are an important aspect of the lives of diverse animals, from sea anemones competing for space on a rocky shore to fallow deer stags contending for access to females. Why do animals fight? What determines when fights stop and which contestant wins? Addressing fundamental questions on contest behaviour, this volume presents theoretical and empirical perspectives across a range of species. The historical development of contest research, the evolutionary theory of both dyadic and multiparty contests, and approaches to experimental design and data analysis are discussed in the first chapters. This is followed by reviews of research in key animal taxa, from the use of aerial displays and assessment rules in butterflies and the developmental biology of weapons in beetles, through to interstate warfare in humans. The final chapter considers future directions and applications of contest research, making this a comprehensive resource for both graduate students and researchers in the field.
Download or read book Animal Contests written by Ian C. W. Hardy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contests are an important aspect of the lives of diverse animals, from sea anemones competing for space on a rocky shore to fallow deer stags contending for access to females. Why do animals fight? What determines when fights stop and which contestant wins? Addressing fundamental questions on contest behaviour, this volume presents theoretical and empirical perspectives across a range of species. The historical development of contest research, the evolutionary theory of both dyadic and multiparty contests, and approaches to experimental design and data analysis are discussed in the first chapters. This is followed by reviews of research in key animal taxa, from the use of aerial displays and assessment rules in butterflies and the developmental biology of weapons in beetles, through to interstate warfare in humans. The final chapter considers future directions and applications of contest research, making this a comprehensive resource for both graduate students and researchers in the field.
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Download or read book Studying Animal Behavior written by Donald A. Dewsbury and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1989-07-15 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these autobiographical essays by pioneers in the field of animal behavior, the authors discuss childhood, education, moments of discovery, and the attractions of the research that each pursued. The field of animal behavior has been interdisciplinary throughout its history, and the two psychologists and seventeen biologists in Donald Dewsbury's collection provide a fascinating assortment of backgrounds and interests. Chosen by a panel of seven distinguished animal behaviorists, the men whose essays are collected here include two Nobel Prize winners and one Pulitzer Prize winner. All provide unique accounts of the development of the field written by its original leading practitioners.
Download or read book Wild and Crazy written by Paul Joynson-Hicks and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-05-02 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The funniest photographs of wildlife from around the world collected here in one ... book [intended] for animal lovers of all stripes"--
Download or read book Social Behaviour In Animals written by A. Sarkar and published by Discovery Publishing House. This book was released on 2003 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: Group Living, First Voice, Cooperative Behaviour, Evolution of Social Behaviour, Social Behaviour in Women, Social Behaviour of Aquatic Animals, Social Behaviour in Wild Animals, Lekking in Fishes and Birds, Agonistic Behaviour, Population Behaviour.
Download or read book Organizing Special Events and Conferences written by Darcy Campion Devney and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-10-17 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is help for anyone who has to produce a public event — from a church social or school fundraiser to a national conference. This comprehensive and practical handbook is the first to reveal all the tricks and techniques of the professional event organizer. Packed with step-by-step instructions, checklists, schedules, and lists of organizations, addresses, and publications, this edition includes updated resources that will prove indispensable to event planners.
Download or read book Sperm Competition and the Evolution of Animal Mating Systems written by Robert Lloyd Smith and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sperm competition and the evolution of animal mating strategies; Male sperm competition avoidance mechanisms: the influence of female interests; Sperm in competition; Male mating effort, confidence of paternity, and insect sperm competition; ...
Download or read book Philosophy of Sport written by Martin A. Bertman and published by Humanities-Ebooks. This book was released on with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction, Definition of Sport, Sub-Classes, Competition versus Rivalry: Greek Olympics and Roman Gladiators, Social Psychology, Aesthetic Psychology: Certainty, Identity, and Purpose, Sport as Symbol of Society and Character of Choice, Sport Ethics.
Download or read book Jesus Paul Luke Acts and 1 Clement written by David L. Balch and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-06-19 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the author draws on two original sources, on a Greek biographer, historian, and rhetorician, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, as well as on Pompeian domestic art and architecture. Generally, NT scholars read texts, but Greeks and ancient Romans loved beauty. The walls and floors of their houses were decorated with thousands of colorful frescoes and mosaics, art that two millennia later is still on display in Pompeii. Christians lived and worshipped in those typical houses; relating the art to NT texts generates many intriguing new questions! What stories/myths did Greeks and Romans see every day? What were their sports, and how violent were they? Many NT scholars know as much or more Latin than they do Greek, and they therefore cite the Latin historian Livy rather than the Greek Dionysius, who wrote a century before the first Christian historian, Luke. Dionysius' rhetoric expressed values shared across cultures, by Greeks, Romans, and Jews (e.g., by the historian--and rhetorician--Josephus), some values that Luke also shares. Dionysius makes clear that cities and ethnic groups had to praise how they treated emigrant foreigners, questions handled differently by Josephus and by Luke. This enables new interpretations of Jesus' inaugural speech in Luke 4 and of Peter's second Pentecost speech in Acts 10.
Download or read book Evolutionary Behavioral Ecology written by David Westneat and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evolutionary Behavioral Ecology presents a comprehensive treatment of the evolutionary and ecological processes shaping behavior across a wide array of organisms and a diverse set of behaviors and is suitable as a graduate-level text and as a sourcebook for professional scientists.
Download or read book Primate Behaviour written by Duane Quiatt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stressing direct connections between human and nonhuman society, this book about the social life of monkeys, apes and humans emphasizes the importance of social information and knowledge in the understanding of primate behavior and organization.
Download or read book War Peace and Human Nature written by Douglas P. Fry and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays from leading academics about the nature of war and the capacity for peace as applied to human nature.
Download or read book Early Christianity in Pompeian Light written by Bruce W. Longenecker and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars of early Christianity are awakening to the potential of Pompeii’s treasures for casting light on the settings and situations that were commonplace and conventional for the first urban Christians. The uncovered world of Pompeii, destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E., allows us to peer back in time, capturing a heightened sense of what life was like on the ground in the first century – the very time when the early Jesus-movement was beginning to find its feet. In light of the Vesuvian material remains, historians are beginning to ask fresh questions of early Christian texts and perceive new contours, nuances, and subtleties within the situations those texts address. The essays of this book explore different dimensions of Pompeii’s potential to refine our lenses for interpreting the texts and situations of early Christianity. The contributors to this book (including Carolyn Osiek, David Balch, Peter Oakes, Bruce Longenecker, and others) demonstrate that it is an exciting time to explore the interface between the Vesuvian contexts and the early Jesus-movement.
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