Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
2018; Elsevier BV; Linguagem: Inglês
10.1016/b978-0-12-809633-8.20838-8
AutoresJerram L. Brown, Jae Chun Choe,
Tópico(s)Animal Behavior and Reproduction
ResumoBehavioral ecology and sociobiology are relatively new scientific disciplines. They rose to prominence in the 1960s and 1970s as parts of other disciplines, and then solidified their status as new disciplines in the 1980s and 1990s as new mathematical and molecular tools became available. If we define sociobiology as the systematic study of biological basis of social behavior, behavioral ecology has a greater scope and coverage. Then, there are ethology and more recently, evolutionary psychology. In practice, these fields do not have clear-cut boundaries, as their practitioners rather freely move across disciplines because all share a firm foundation in Darwin's evolutionary theories. It all began from Darwin and along the way the input from population ecology was critically important to the emergence of behavioral ecology. Behavioral ecology and sociobiology deal with such concepts as evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS), resource defense and territoriality, ideal free distribution, life history strategy, mating systems and sexual selection, and aid-giving behavior.
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