Phylogenies and the Comparative Method in Animal Behavior
In the last ten years, the "comparative method" has been revolutionized by modern statistical ways of incorporating phylogenies into the design and analysis of comparative studies. The results of this revolution are particularly important in the study of animal behavior, which has relied on interspecific comparisons to infer universal trends and evolutionary patterns. The chapters of this edited volume consider the impact of modern phylogenetic comparative methods on the study of animal...
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In the last ten years, the "comparative method" has been revolutionized by modern statistical ways of incorporating phylogenies into the design and analysis of comparative studies. The results of this revolution are particularly important in the study of animal behavior, which has relied on interspecific comparisons to infer universal trends and evolutionary patterns. The chapters of this edited volume consider the impact of modern phylogenetic comparative methods on the study of animal behavior and discuss the main issues that need to be considered in design and analysis of a comparative study, considers possible differences between the evolution of behavior and the evolution of morphology, and reviews how phylogenetic comparative studies have been used in certain areas of behavioral research.
PrefaceList of contributors1Phylogenetics in behavior: some cautions and expectations12The statistical analysis of interspecific data: A review and evaluation of phylogenetic comparative methods223How to study discrete comparative methods764The mechanistic bases of behavioral evolution: A multivariate analysis of musculoskeletal function1045Geographic variation in behavior: A phylogenetic framework for comparative studies1386Phylogenetic lability and rates of evolution: A comparison of behavioral, morphological and life history traits1667Comparing behavioral and morphological characters as imdicators of phylogeny2068The phylogenetic content of avian courtship display and song evolution2349Comparative analysis of the origins and losses of eusociality: Causal mosaics and historical uniqueness25310Using comparative approaches to integrate behavior and population biology28811Phylogenetic Interpretations of primate socioecology: With special reference to social and ecological diversity in Macaca32412Using cladistic analysis of comparative data to reconstruct the evolution of cognitive development in Hominids36113Why phylogenies are necessary for comparative analysis399Subject Index412
