Cannibalism: Ecology and Evolution among Diverse Taxa
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 25 June 1992
- ISBN 9780198546504
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages376 pages
- Size 242x159x26 mm
- Weight 751 g
- Language English
- Illustrations figures, tables 0
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Short description:
This book covers the contextual and taxonomic diversity of cannibalism and explains its costs, benefits, and consequences for a taxonomically broad distribution of species from lower eukaryotes to higher primates. The emerging picture challenges the view that cannibalism is either abnormal behaviour or an infrequent addition to the predator's usual diet.
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Covering the contextual and taxonomic diversity of cannibalism, this book explains its costs, benefits, and consequences for a taxonomically broad distribution of species from lower eukaryotes to higher primates.
The authors, all experts in their taxon of interest, use theory developed for the analysis of foraging, sociality, demography, and genetics to assess the ecological and evolutionary causes and effects of cannibalism. The emerging picture from recent research challenges the view that cannibalism is either abnormal behaviour or an infrequent addition to the predator's usual diet.
'For anyone interested in cannibalism this will be a key text for some years.'
Carl Smith, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, Volume 3, Number 1, March 1993
Table of Contents:
M. Elgar & B. Crespi: Ecology and evolution of cannibalism; G. Dong & G. Polis: Dynamics of cannibalistic populations; C. Sargent: Ecology of filial cannibalism in fishes; D. Haig: Brood reduction in gymnosperms; D. Waddell: Cannibalism in lower eukaryotes; B. Baur: Cannibalism in gastropods; M. Elgar: Sexual cannibalism in spiders and other invertebrates; L. Stevens: Cannibalism in beetles; B. Crespi: Cannibalism and trophic eggs in subsocial and eusocial insects; P. Kukuk: Cannibalism in social bees; C. Fitzgerald & F. Whoriskey: Empirical studies of cannibalism in fish; M. Crump: Cannibalism in amphibians; M. Stanback & W. Koenig: Cannibalism in birds; R. Elwood: Pup cannibalism in rodents; M. Hiraiwa-Hasegawa: Cannibalism among non-human primates.
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