Chapter 1: Principles of Animal Behavior Three Foundations Foundation 1 -- Natural Selection Foundation 2 -- Learning Foundation 3 -- Cultural Transmission Conceptual, Theoretical, and Empirical Approaches Conceptual Approaches Theoretical Approaches Empirical Approaches Overview of What Is to Follow Interview with Dr. E. O. Wilson Chapter 2: Natural Selection Artificial Selection The Process of Natural Selection Selective Advantage of a Trait How Natural Selection Operates Behavioral Genetics Mendel\'s Rules Locating Genes for Polygenic Traits Dissecting Behavioral Variation Animal Behavior and Natural Selection Sociobiology and Selfish Genes Natural Selection and Antipredator Behavior in Guppies Adaptation Genetic Techniques as Tools Kinship and Naked Mole Rat Behavior Coalition Formation Interview with Dr. Richard Alexander Chapter 3: Proximate Factors Ultimate and Proximate Perspectives Hormones and Proximate Causation Hormones and Helping-at-the-Nest Testosterone and Play Fighting in Rats Neurological Underpinnings of Behavior and Proximate Causation The Nervous Impulse Vocalizations in Plainfin Midshipman Mushroom Bodies, Insects, and Learning Sleep and Predation in Mallard Ducks Biochemical Factors Ultraviolet Vision in Zebra Finches Environmental Sex Determination and Sex Ratios Reptiles, Sex Determination, and Temperature Red Deer, Dominance Status, and Sex Ratios Genes and Proximate Explanations Learning as a Proximate Factor Interview with Dr. Timothy Clutton-Brock Chapter 4: Learning What Is Individual Learning? How Animals Learn Learning from a Single-Stimulus Experience Pavlovian (Classical) Conditioning Instrumental (Operant) Conditioning Why Animals Learn Within-Species Studies and the Evolution of Learning Population Comparisons and the Evolution of Learning A Model of the Evolution of Learning What Animals Learn Learning Where Home Is Located Learning about Your Mate Learning about Familial Relationships Learning about Aggression Interview with Dr. Sara Shettleworth Chapter 5: Social Learning and Cultural Transmission What Is Cultural Transmission? Animal Culture Why All the Fuss about Culture? Types of Cultural Transmission Social Learning Teaching in Animals Modes of Cultural Transmission Vertical Cultural Transmission Horizontal Cultural Transmission Oblique Cultural Transmission The Interaction of Genetic and Cultural Transmission The Grants\' Finches Whitehead\'s Whales Genes for Cultural Transmission? Cultural Transmission and Brain Size Interview with Dr. Bennet "Jeff" Galef Chapter 6: Sexual Selection Intersexual and Intrasexual Selection Genetics and Mate Choice Direct Benefits and Mate Choice Good Genes and Mate Choice Runaway Sexual Selection Learning and Mate Choice Sexual Imprinting Learning and Mate Choice in Japanese Quail Learning and Mate Choice in Blue Gouramis Cultural Transmission and Mate Choice Defining Mate-Choice Copying Mate-Choice Copying in Grouse Mate-Choice Copying in Guppies Song Learning and Mate Choice in Cowbirds Male-Male Competition and Sexual Selection Underground Mating and Male-Male Competition in Fiddler Crabs Red Deer Roars and Male-Male Competition Male-Male Competition by Interference Male-Male Competition via Cuckoldry Neuroethology and Mate Choice Swordtails, Platytfish, and Sensory Bias Frogs and Sensory Bias Zebra Finches and Sensory Bias Interview with Dr.

Malte Andersson Chapter 7: Mating Systems Different Mating Systems Monogamo.