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Action potential
Androgen
Androgen insensitivity syndrome
Androgen receptor
Animal testing
Author_Elizabeth Adkins-Regan
Behavior
Behavioral ecology
Behavioral endocrinology
Behavioural genetics
Biological activity
Category=RG
Directional selection
Endocrine disruptor
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_nobargain
Estrogen
Evolution
Evolution of sexual reproduction
Evolutionary developmental biology
External fertilization
Female
Glucocorticoid
GnRH Neuron
Gonad
Gonadotropin-releasing hormone
Hormone
Hormone response element
Hormones and Behavior
Human behavior
Hypogonadism
Hypothalamic–pituitary–gonadal axis
Internal fertilization
Juvenile hormone
Luteinizing hormone
Mammal
Mammalian reproduction
Mate choice
Mating
Mating system
Mating type
Mimicry
Natural selection
Neuroanatomy
Operational sex ratio
Oviparity
Ovulation
Oxytocin
Parasitism
Parental investment
Peptide
Pheromone
Predation
Progestin
Prolactin
Puberty
Reproductive success
Reproductive system
Sex change
Sex reversal
Sex steroid
Sexual differentiation
Sexual dimorphism
Sexual reproduction
Sexual selection
Social behavior
Spermatophore
Steroid
Territory (animal)
Testicle
Testosterone
Vertebrate
Virilization
Vomeronasal receptor
Product details
- ISBN 9780691092478
- Weight: 595g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 07 Aug 2005
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 behavior and steroid and peptide hormones--a synthesis designed to make it easier for graduate students and researchers to appreciate the excitement, engage in such integrative thinking, and understand the primary literature. Throughout, Elizabeth Adkins-Regan emphasizes concepts and principles, hypothesis testing, and critical thinking. She raises unanswered questions, providing an unparalleled source of ideas for future research.
The chapter sequence is by levels of biological organization, beginning with the behavior and hormones of individuals, proceeding to social relationships and systems, and from there to development, behavioral evolution over relatively short time scales, life histories and their evolution, and finally evolution over longer time scales. The book features studies of a wide variety of wild and domestic vertebrates along with some of the most important invertebrate discoveries.
Elizabeth Adkins-Regan is Professor of Psychology and Professor of Neurobiology and Behavior at Cornell University.
