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Mammals --- Parental behavior in animals. --- Behavior. --- Care of the young (Animal behavior) --- Maternal behavior in animals --- Parental care in animals --- Parenting in animals --- Paternal behavior in animals --- Paternalism in animals --- Animal behavior --- Cooperative breeding in animals

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Advances in the Study of Behavior was initiated over 40 years ago to serve the increasing number of scientists engaged in the study of animal behavior. That number is still expanding. This thematic volume makes another important ""contribution to the development of the field"" by bringing together material that aggregates studies conducted on the behavior of tropical animals. Advances in the Study of Behavior is now available online at ScienceDirect--full-text online from volume 30 onward.

Parental behavior in animals --- Care of the young (Animal behavior) --- Maternal behavior in animals --- Parental care in animals --- Parenting in animals --- Paternal behavior in animals --- Paternalism in animals --- Animal behavior --- Cooperative breeding in animals --- Animal behavior. --- Human behavior. --- Psychology, Comparative. --- Behavior. --- Animaux --- Comportement humain --- Psychologie comparée --- Mœurs et comportement --- Maternal Behavior --- Paternal Behavior --- Animals

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This book presents cutting edge research on the basic neurobiology of parental behavior as it relates to behavioral disorders, including postpartum depression, anxiety, and inadequate parental bonding to infants. Internationally recognized basic and clinical researchers present new research findings in humans and animals that elucidate the roles of the brain, physiological state, genes and environment in maternal and paternal care. By bridging the gap between basic and clinical research, new understandings of how the biology of the brain and the reproductive state of the parent impact their me

Parental behavior in animals --- Animal behavior --- Physiological aspects. --- Animals --- Animals, Habits and behavior of --- Behavior, Animal --- Ethology --- Animal psychology --- Zoology --- Ethologists --- Psychology, Comparative --- Care of the young (Animal behavior) --- Maternal behavior in animals --- Parental care in animals --- Parenting in animals --- Paternal behavior in animals --- Paternalism in animals --- Cooperative breeding in animals --- Behavior

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Parental care includes a wide variety of traits that enhance offspring development and survival. It is taxonomically widespread and is central to the maintenance of biodiversity through its close association with other phenomena such as sexual selection, life-history evolution, sex allocation, sociality, cooperation and conflict, growth and development, genetic architecture, and phenotypic plasticity.This novel book provides a fresh perspective on the study of the evolution of parental care based on contributions from some of the top researchers in the field. It provides evidence that the dyna

Parental behavior in animals. --- Evolution (Biology) --- Animal evolution --- Animals --- Biological evolution --- Darwinism --- Evolutionary biology --- Evolutionary science --- Origin of species --- Biology --- Evolution --- Biological fitness --- Homoplasy --- Natural selection --- Phylogeny --- Care of the young (Animal behavior) --- Maternal behavior in animals --- Parental care in animals --- Parenting in animals --- Paternal behavior in animals --- Paternalism in animals --- Animal behavior --- Cooperative breeding in animals

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Why do baby sharks, hyenas, and pelicans kill their siblings? Why do beetles and mice commit infanticide? Why are twins and birth defects more common in older human mothers? A Natural History of Families concisely examines what behavioral ecologists have discovered about family dynamics and what these insights might tell us about human biology and behavior. Scott Forbes's engaging account describes an uneasy union among family members in which rivalry for resources often has dramatic and even fatal consequences. In nature, parents invest resources and control the allocation of resources among their offspring to perpetuate their genetic lineage. Those families sometimes function as cooperative units, the nepotistic and loving havens we choose to identify with. In the natural world, however, dysfunctional familial behavior is disarmingly commonplace. While explaining why infanticide, fratricide, and other seemingly antisocial behaviors are necessary, Forbes also uncovers several surprising applications to humans. Here the conflict begins in the moments following conception as embryos struggle to wrest control of pregnancy from the mother, and to wring more nourishment from her than she can spare, thus triggering morning sickness, diabetes, and high blood pressure. Mothers, in return, often spontaneously abort embryos with severe genetic defects, allowing for prenatal quality control of offspring. Using a broad sweep of entertaining examples culled from the world of animals and humans, A Natural History of Families is a lively introduction to the behavioral ecology of the family.

Parental behavior in animals. --- Families. --- Reproduction --- Reproduction. --- Amphimixis --- Generation --- Pangenesis --- Procreation --- Biology --- Life (Biology) --- Physiology --- Sex (Biology) --- Embryology --- Generative organs --- Theriogenology --- Care of the young (Animal behavior) --- Maternal behavior in animals --- Parental care in animals --- Parenting in animals --- Paternal behavior in animals --- Paternalism in animals --- Animal behavior --- Cooperative breeding in animals --- Family --- Families --- Family life --- Family relationships --- Family structure --- Relationships, Family --- Structure, Family --- Social institutions --- Birth order --- Domestic relations --- Home --- Households --- Kinship --- Marriage --- Matriarchy --- Parenthood --- Patriarchy --- Social aspects. --- Social aspects --- Social conditions