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7. Some difficult problems
Brian Charlesworth and Deborah Charlesworth
in Evolution: A Very Short Introduction
‘Some difficult problems’ describes some examples of biological phenomena that are difficult to explain including the evolution of flight, eyes, and protein molecules; and why ageing occurs ...
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1. How animals behave (and why)
Tristram D. Wyatt
in Animal Behaviour: A Very Short Introduction
Behaviour is a key way in which animals interact with their world: how animals find and choose mates, look after their young, find food, avoid becoming food for predators, and build nests ...
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8. Afterword
Brian Charlesworth and Deborah Charlesworth
in Evolution: A Very Short Introduction
The ‘Afterword’ provides a brief summary and concludes that our modern view of evolution is remarkably close to that of Wallace and Darwin. The chief difference is that two advances mean ...
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6. Winning strategies
Tristram D. Wyatt
in Animal Behaviour: A Very Short Introduction
The field of behavioural ecology, developed in the 1960s and 1970s, offered new ideas and provided powerful ways of exploring how behaviour evolves. Behavioural ecology examines how the ...
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Animal Behaviour: A Very Short Introduction
Tristram D. Wyatt
How animals behave is crucial to their survival and reproduction. Animal Behaviour: A Very Short Introduction discusses how animal behaviour has evolved, how behaviours develop in each ...
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