Hormones and Animal Social Behavior
Elizabeth Adkins-Regan
Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik / Zoologie
Beschreibung
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.
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Biological activity, Hormone, Sex change, Natural selection, Endocrine disruptor, Pheromone, Oviparity, Androgen receptor, Sex steroid, Mating, Human behavior, Mating system, External fertilization, Neuroanatomy, Luteinizing hormone, Vomeronasal receptor, Territory (animal), Action potential, Peptide, Animal testing, Estrogen, Hypothalamic–pituitary–gonadal axis, Spermatophore, Testicle, Evolution, Sexual reproduction, Mimicry, Oxytocin, Internal fertilization, Parasitism, Evolution of sexual reproduction, Social behavior, Behavioral endocrinology, Sexual differentiation, Hormones and Behavior, Mammal, Behavior, Sexual dimorphism, Progestin, Gonadotropin-releasing hormone, Mate choice, Predation, Directional selection, Operational sex ratio, Vertebrate, Ovulation, Juvenile hormone, GnRH Neuron, Behavioral ecology, Hormone response element, Glucocorticoid, Parental investment, Mating type, Puberty, Androgen, Prolactin, Sexual selection, Behavioural genetics, Female, Virilization, Gonad, Reproductive success, Hypogonadism, Testosterone, Evolutionary developmental biology, Reproductive system, Androgen insensitivity syndrome, Sex reversal, Steroid, Mammalian reproduction