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Marmots
David P. Barash
其他書名
Social Behavior and Ecology
出版
Stanford University Press
, 1989
主題
Science / Life Sciences / Zoology / General
Nature / Animals / Mammals
ISBN
0804715343
9780804715348
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=NAOVkgr_eVgC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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In this book, based on over twenty years of study around the world, the author summarizes and synthesizes virtually everything that is known of the social behaviour and ecology of marmots. The organizing principle of the author's approach is evolution by natural selection - and thus, the degree to which the social behaviour of free-living animals can be interpreted as representing adaptations to particular environmental conditions. This book is essentially a single, widespread genus (genus Marmota comprising fourteen species found in North America and Eurasia. As such, it represents a productive union of theoretical insights from Darwinism and modern sociobiology, accompanied by a wealth of empirical data. Marmots are notable in that they constitute a relatively homogeneous group, made up of numerous species which greatly resemble each other. However, they occupy widely varying habitats - from temperate, lowland elevations to (more often) alpine meadows - and theory would predict behavioural adaptations to match their habitats.