x, 415 pages : 24 cm

Based on papers from a symposium organized for the Animal Behavior Society in Seattle, July 1994

Includes bibliographical references and index

Phylogenetics in behavior: some cautions and expectations / Michael J. Ryan -- The statistical analysis of interspecific data: a review and evaluation of phylogenetic comparative methods / Emilia P. Martins and Thomas F. Hansen -- How to study discrete comparative methods / Mark Ridley and Alan Grafen -- The mechanistic bases of behavioral evolution: a multivariate analysis of musculoskeletal function / George V. Lauder and Stephen M. Reilly -- Geographic variation in behavior: a phylogenetic framework for comparative studies / Susan A. Foster and Sydney A. Cameron -- Phylogenetic lability and rates of evolution: a comparison of behavioral, morphological and life history traits / John L. Gittleman [and others] -- Comparing behavioral and morphological characters as indicators of phylogeny / Peter H. Wimberger and Alan de Queiroz -- The phylogenetic content of avian courtship display and song evolution / Rebecca E. Irwin -- Comparative analysis of the origins and losses of eusociality: causal mosaics and historical uniqueness / Bernard J. Crespi -- Using comparative approaches to integrate behavior and population biology / Daniel E.L. Promislow -- Phylogenetic interpretations of promate socioecology: with special reference to social and ecological diversity in Macaca / Leslie K.W. Chan -- Using cladistic analysis of comparative data to reconstruct the evolution of cognitive development in Hominids / Sue Taylor Parker -- Why phylogenies are necessary for comparative analysis / Sean Nee, Andrew F. Read and Paul H. Harvey

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