| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 231 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
Originally published: 2005. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-228) and index. |
| Contents |
Blame parents -- The optimistic parent -- Why parents play favorites -- How parents play favorites -- Family conflict -- Selfishness unconstrained -- Screening for offspring quality -- Why twins? -- Fatal sibling rivalry -- Family harmony -- Cannibalism and infanticide -- Brave new worlds -- Debunking the family myth. |
| Summary |
Why do baby sharks, hyenas, and pelicans kill their siblings? Why do beetles and mice commit infanticide? Why are twins and birth defects more common in older human mothers? A Natural History of Families concisely examines what behavioral ecologists have discovered about family dynamics and what these insights might tell us about human biology and behavior. Scott Forbes's engaging account describes an uneasy union among family members in which rivalry for resources often has dramatic and even fatal consequences. In nature, parents invest resources and control the allocation of resources among. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Reproduction.
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Reproduction. |
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Reproduction -- Social aspects.
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Social aspects. |
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Families.
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Families. |
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Parental behavior in animals.
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Parental behavior in animals. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Forbes, Scott, 1958- Natural history of families. Princeton, N.J. ; Woodstock : Princeton University Press, 2007 9780691130354 (OCoLC)76798261 |
| ISBN |
9781400837236 (electronic book) |
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1400837235 (electronic book) |
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1283133342 |
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9781283133340 |
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9780691130354 |
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0691130353 |
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