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	Author	Darwin , Charles
	Title	The Descent of Man; Reprint edition			Type	Book Whole
	Year	1997	Publication		Abbreviated Journal
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	Publisher	Prometheus Books;	Place of Publication	Amherst, New York	Editor
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN	978-1573921763	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes				Approved	no
	Call Number	Equine Behaviour @ team @			Serial	4095
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	Author	Krebs, J.R.; Davies, N.B.
	Title	Behavioural ecology : an evolutionary approach			Type	Book Whole
	Year	1997	Publication		Abbreviated Journal
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	Abstract	ntended for graduate and upper level undergraduate courses in behavioural ecology where students are already familiar with the basic ideas, this book continues to define the subject. A completely new set of contributions has been brought together once more to take account of the many exciting new developments in the field. Each chapter presents a balanced view of the subject, integrating a clear exposition of the theory with a critical discussion of how predictions have been tested by experiments and comparative studies. In addition, the book points to unreconciled issues and possible future developments. Edited by two of the most highly regarded experts in the field, this new volume contains contributions from an international authorship and continues the tradition of clarity and accessibility established by the three previous editions.
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	Publisher	Blackwell Science	Place of Publication	Cambridge, Mass.	Editor
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	ISSN		ISBN	0865427313 9780865427310	Medium
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	Notes				Approved	no
	Call Number	Equine Behaviour @ team @ 35114973			Serial	4276
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	Author	Giraldeau, Luc-Alain
	Title	The ecology of information use			Type	Book Chapter
	Year	1997	Publication	Behavioural ecology : an evolutionary approach	Abbreviated Journal
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	Publisher	Blackwell Science	Place of Publication	Cambridge, Mass.	Editor	Krebs, J.R.; Davies, N.B.
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	ISSN		ISBN	0865427313 9780865427310	Medium
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	Notes				Approved	no
	Call Number	Equine Behaviour @ team @ 35114973			Serial	4277
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	Author	unknown
	Title	Personality and Personality Disorders			Type	Book Chapter
	Year	1997	Publication	Behavioural Genetics	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	195-207
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	Publisher	W. H. Freeman and Company	Place of Publication	New York	Editor	Plomin, R.; DeFries, J.C.; McClearn, G.E.;Rutter, M.
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	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition	3
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	Call Number	Equine Behaviour @ team @			Serial	4283
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	Author	Beaugrand, J.P
	Title	Relative importance of initial individual differences, agonistic experience, and assessment accuracy during hierarchy formation: a simulation study			Type	Journal Article
	Year	1997	Publication	Behavioural Processes	Abbreviated Journal	Behav. Process.
	Volume	41	Issue		Pages	177-192
	Keywords	Dominance; Hierarchy formation; RHP; Agonistic experience; Assessment; Self-organization; Simulation
	Abstract	This simulation study explores some conditions leading to transitivity within dominance orders. Combinations of three parameters were varied to study their consequences upon hierarchy formation and upon the degree of linearity of resultant structures. The factors studied were: (1) the importance of initial resource holding potentials (RHPs); (2) changes brought in RHPs by successive victories and defeats; and (3) accuracy of RHP assessment made by opponents. Results show that initial differences in RHP always lead to perfectly transitive chains whose rank order reflects the importance of initial differences. Even when simulated animals make important errors while assessing each other during round robin tournaments, emerging dominance structures are perfectly linear and ranks obtained in the structure are highly correlated with initial values in RHPs. Moreover, accumulated experiences of victory and/or defeat alone always lead to perfectly linear hierarchies. Their combination with initial individual differences in RHP led to the same conclusion. Even when assessment was far from being perfect, not only perfect chains were formed but initial values in RHPs significantly influenced rank order when the contribution of victory and defeat to RHP was relatively unimportant. The higher the importance of victory and defeat to RHP as compared to that of initial RHP values, the lower was the correlation between initial RHP values and the ranks order reached by individuals in the resultant hierarchies. In general also, the lower the variation within initial RHPs, the lower was the correlation between initial RHPs and ranks in the hierarchy. At a given level of initial RHP dispersion, increasing the contribution of victory and defeat to RHP diminished the correlation between initial RHP values and obtained ranks. In addition, inaccurate assessment reduced the overall correlation, especially when dispersion of initial RHP values was low and the contribution of victory and defeat relatively unimportant. These results shed some light on the controversy about the respective roles of initial individual attributes and that of patterns of resolution in the formation of animal hierarchies. We present the emergence of social order within closed systems as those simulated here as a case of self-organization.
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	Call Number	Equine Behaviour @ team @			Serial	4290
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	Author	Beaugrand, J.P.
	Title	Relative importance of initial individual differences, victory and defeat experiences, and assessment accuracy during hierarchy formation: A simulation study			Type	Miscellaneous
	Year	1997	Publication	Cogprints	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	41	Issue		Pages	177-192
	Keywords	Dominance; Hierarchy formation; RHP; agonistic experience; Assessment; Self-organization; Simulation
	Abstract	This simulation study explores some conditions leading to transitivity within dominance orders. Combinations of three parameters were varied to study their consequences upon hierarchy formation and upon the degree of linearity of resultant structures. The factors studied were (i) the importance of initial Resource Holding Potentials (RHPs) , (ii) changes brought in RHPs by successive victories and defeats, and (iii) accuracy of RHP assessment made by opponents. Results show that initial differences in RHP always lead to perfectly transitive chains whose rank order reflects the importance of initial differences. Even when simulated animals make important errors while assessing each other during round robin tournaments, emerging dominance structures are perfectly linear and ranks obtained in the structure are highly correlated with initial values in RHPs. Moreover, accumulated experiences of victory and/or defeat alone always lead to perfectly linear hierarchies. Their combination with initial individual differences in RHP led to the same conclusion. Even when assessment was far from being perfect, not only perfect chains were formed but initial values in RHPs significantly influenced rank order when the contribution of victory and defeat to RHP was relatively unimportant. The higher the importance of victory and defeat to RHP as compared to that of initial RHP values, the lower was the correlation between initial RHP values and the ranks order reached by individuals in the resultant hierarchies. In general also, the lower the variation within initial RHPs, the lower was the correlation between initial RHPs and ranks in the hierarchy. At a given level of initial RHP dispersion, increasing the contribution of victory and defeat to RHP diminished the correlation between initial RHP values and obtained ranks. In addition, inaccurate assessment reduced the overall correlation, especially when dispersion of initial RHP values was low and the contribution of victory and defeat was high. These results shed some light on the controversy about the respective roles of initial individual attributes and that of patterns of resolution in the formation of animal hierarchies. We present the emergence of social order within closed systems as those simulated here as a case of self-organization.
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	Publisher	Elsevier	Place of Publication		Editor
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	Call Number	Equine Behaviour @ team @ cogprints:1965			Serial	4291
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	Author	Tomasello, M.; Call,J
	Title	Primate Cognition			Type	Book Whole
	Year	1997	Publication	Oxford University Press	Abbreviated Journal	Oxf. Univ. Pr.
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	Abstract	Description Ever since Charles Darwin first formulated his theories on evolution, much research has been conducted in primate cognition. In this book, Michael Tomasello and Josep Call review what is already known about the cognitive skills of nonhuman primates, and assess the current state of our knowledge. They integrate empirical findings on the topic from the beginning of the century to the present, placing this work in theoretical perspective. The first part examines the way primates adapt to their physical world, mostly for the purpose of foraging. The second part lokos at primate social knowledhe and focuses on the adaptations of primates to their social world for purposes of competation and cooperation. In the third section, the authors construct a general theory of primate cognition, distinguishing the cognition in primates from that of other mammals (human in particular). Their broad-ranging theory should provide a guide for future research. Primate Cognition is an enlightening exploration of the cognitive capacities of our nearest primate relatives. It is a useful resource for a eide range of researchers and students in psychology, behavioral biology, primatology, and anthropology.
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	Publisher	Oxford University Press	Place of Publication	Oxford	Editor
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	ISSN		ISBN	9780195106244	Medium
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	Call Number	Equine Behaviour @ team @			Serial	4424
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	Author	Sterck, E.; Watts, D.; van Schaik, C.
	Title	The evolution of female social relationships in nonhuman primates			Type	Journal Article
	Year	1997	Publication	Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology	Abbreviated Journal	Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol.
	Volume	41	Issue	5	Pages	291-309
	Keywords	ecology; matrilocal; primate; social; theory
	Abstract	Considerable interspeci®c variation in female social relationships occurs in gregarious primates, particularly with regard to agonism and cooperation between females and to the quality of female relationships with males. This variation exists alongside variation in female philopatry and dispersal. Socioecological theories have tried to explain variation in female-female social relationships from an evolutionary perspective focused on ecological factors, notably predation and food distribution. According to the current ``ecological model'', predation risk forces females of most diurnal primate species to live in groups; the strength of the contest component of competition for resources within and between groups then largely determines social relationships between females. Social elationships among gregarious females are here characterized as DispersalEgalitarian, Resident-Nepotistic, Resident-Nepotistic-Tolerant, or Resident-Egalitarian. This ecological model has successfully explained ierences in the occurrence of formal submission signals, decided dominance relation ships, coalitions and female philopatry. Group size and female rank generally aect female reproduction success as the model predicts, and studies of closely related species in dierent ecological circumstances underscore the importance of the model. Some cases, however, can only be explained when we extend the model to incorporate the eects of infanticide risk and habitat saturation. We review evidence in support of the ecological model and test the power of alternative models that invoke between-group competition, forced female philopatry, demographic female recruitment, male interventions into female aggression, and male harassment. Not one of these models can replace the ecological model, which already encompasses the between-group competition. Currently the best model, which explains several phenomena that the ecological model does not, is a ``socioecological model'' based on the combined importance of ecological factors, habitat saturation and infanticide avoidance. We note some points of similarity and divergence with other mammalian taxa; these remain to be explored in detail.
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	Call Number	Equine Behaviour @ team @			Serial	5227
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	Author	Whiten A.; Byrne, R. W. (eds)
	Title	Machiavellian Intelligence II – Extensions and Evaluations			Type	Book Whole
	Year	1997	Publication		Abbreviated Journal
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	Publisher	Cambridge University Press	Place of Publication	Cambridge	Editor	Whiten A.; Byrne, R. W.
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	Call Number	Equine Behaviour @ team @			Serial	5233
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	Author	Schultz, W.; Dayan, P.; Montague, P.R.
	Title	A Neural Substrate of Prediction and Reward			Type	Journal Article
	Year	1997	Publication	Science	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	275	Issue	5306	Pages	1593-1599
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	Abstract	The capacity to predict future events permits a creature to detect, model, and manipulate the causal structure of its interactions with its environment. Behavioral experiments suggest that learning is driven by changes in the expectations about future salient events such as rewards and punishments. Physiological work has recently complemented these studies by identifying dopaminergic neurons in the primate whose fluctuating output apparently signals changes or errors in the predictions of future salient and rewarding events. Taken together, these findings can be understood through quantitative theories of adaptive optimizing control.
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	Call Number	Equine Behaviour @ team @			Serial	5749
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