Animal Behavior: An Evolutionary Approach

This volume contains new examples throughout and sections on developments such as: techniques of comparative analysis; the theory and application of DNA fingerprinting; and the latest ideas on sexual selection. It also has a new selection of colour plates.

A delightful treasury of observations and insights into the lives of all sorts of creatures, from jackdaws and water-shrews to dogs, cats and even wolves. It is a wonderfully written introduction to the world of our furred and feathered friends!

A groundbreaking book from one of the world's most celebrated animal scientists that will revolutionise our understanding of how animals think and feel

This work develops a general theory to explain the facts of island biogeography. The theory builds on the first principles of population ecology and genetics to explain how distance and area combine to regulate the balance between immigration and extinction in island populations.

Hugely controversial on publication, this is an insightful and characteristically entertaining survey of animal behaviour and the evolution of aggression throughout the animal world.

Arguments that animals possess an emotional life are often dismissed as sentimental anthropomorphism. This book challenges that notion by proposing that the objective scientific evidence for human emotions is all but non-existent.

The third edition of this comprehensive book has increased its scope while emphasizing the intellectual order and molecular perspectives which have added to evolutionary studies in the 1990s.

When this work was first published it created a discipline and started a tumultuous round in the age-old nature versus nurture debate. In the introduction Edward Wilson shows how research in human genetics and neuroscience has strengthened the case for biological understanding of human nature.

An enlightening and entertaining account of the unique relationship between humans and their pets. It offers a delightful insight into animal and human thinking and feeling. An essential companion for all dog lovers!

A gifted and successful animal scientist, the author, who is autistic, tells us what it was like to grow up perceiving the world in an entirely concrete and visual way - somewhat akin to how animals think. She gives an insight into autism and its challenges using her observed understanding of the workings of her mind.