Index
active role 5, 32, 80, 107, 113, 115
adaptability 5, 14, 17, 35, 98, 100, 110, 111, 112–113, 117
adaptations 12, 16, 98, 107, 111–112
Albon, S.D. 61
allele 89
Aronson, L. 28
attachment 3, 19, 22, 23, 24. See also bonding
attention 4, 6, 22–23, 36, 64–65, 73, 117–118
Badyaev, A.V. 113
Baroncelli, L. 54
Beall, C.M. 112
beavers 108
behavioural studies 6, 19, 30, 34, 57, 62, 69, 96, 105–106, 118
determinism 47
behaviour patterns 1, 10, 17, 27–28, 31, 33–34, 41–44, 49, 51, 54, 57, 59, 79–81, 89, 91, 93–94, 111–112, 113
birds 2, 19–20, 23–25, 32–33, 71, 87, 116
Bittles, A.H. 67
blastula 39
Blumberg, M.S. 5
bonding 52–53. See also attachment; parent-offspring relationships
Book of Common Prayer 74
Bowlby, John 21
brain 6, 12, 15, 21, 36, 42, 99
Braun, E. 106
Buklijas, T. 104
Carey, N. 85
Chali, D. 105
choice 12, 20, 33, 69, 75, 91, 103, 107
Clarke, A.D.B. 47
Clarke, A.M. 47
cleaner fish 58
Clutton-Brock, T.H. 61
communication 4, 57–58, 61, 116, 118
competition 14–16, 57, 92, 94, 109
computer 2, 13–15. See also chess
conditional 35, 64–65, 79, 100, 103, 117
conflict 4, 15, 59–62, 116, 118
convergers 96
creativity 6, 7, 13, 93, 96–97, 110
Cresswell, W. 91
cuckoo 57
Darwin, Charles 3, 10, 59, 88, 91, 105, 107, 113
Darwinian evolution 10, 17, 35, 57, 69, 73, 75, 87, 97–98, 102, 106, 107, 113, 118
David, L. 106
descendants 5, 106–107, 113, 117
design 3, 9–12, 17–18, 45, 55, 91, 98, 102, 107, 113, 115–116, 119
development 1, 3–6, 11–14, 16, 19–22, 24–25, 27–38, 39–46, 47–49, 55–56, 57, 62, 63, 65–66, 77, 79–81, 83–87, 89, 91, 94, 97–100, 101–106, 108, 113, 115–118
cake model 79
discontinuous 39
sensitive periods in 20, 21, 47–49, 55
developmental studies 27
controversies 27
differentiation 86
discontinuities 4, 39–41, 44–45, 63–64
divergers 96
‘junk’ DNA 81
ecology 3, 16, 17, 39, 45, 116
Edwards, Jonathan 50
emperor penguin 16
Enquselassie, F. 105
environment 1, 5, 12, 20, 27–28, 32, 35–37, 47, 55, 64–65, 69–70, 74, 77, 80, 82–86, 92, 97–98, 100, 101–105, 107–109, 111–113
epigenetic 28–29, 31, 50, 85–86, 97, 106
evolution 3, 5–6, 10–12, 17, 21, 26, 27, 31, 35, 57, 61, 69, 73, 74, 75, 77, 77–78, 78, 81, 85, 87–89, 97–98, 102–103, 105–113, 115, 117–118
biscuits 88
evolvability 88
Fanshawe, J.H. 91
females 52, 53, 71, 95–96, 107
Ferguson-Smith, A.C. 85
Fitzgibbon, C.D. 91
food 16, 17, 29–30, 40, 41, 43, 49, 54, 58, 59, 61–62, 65, 98, 104–105. See also weaning
Foster, S.A. 112
Freud, Sigmund 48
Fuentes, A. 115
fur seals 63
gambling 115
poker 60
gastrula 39
gene 3–5, 17, 27–28, 67–68, 71, 73, 77–89, 97–98, 101–103, 106, 108, 117
genetic 1, 27, 67–70, 75, 78–80, 82, 83, 84, 86, 88, 89, 91, 99, 102, 107, 110–111, 117–118
genetic-environment dichotomy 1
genomes 5, 78–79, 84, 97–98, 107, 110–111, 117
Gesese, M. 105
Gottlieb, G. 20
Grafen, A. 60
Greenwood, P.J. 70
Helgasson, A. 70
heterarchy 16
Heyes, C. 24
hierarchy 16
Holmes, J. 22
honey bees
waggle dance 58
Hoyle, G. 31
Huber, L. 24
Human Genome Project 78
Humphrey, Nick 109
hybrid vigour 69
imprinting 19–26, 32, 73, 107. See also behavioural imprinting
in the wild 22
inbreeding 4, 67–68, 70, 71, 73–75, 117
information 16, 25, 32, 35, 57–60, 65, 66, 79, 86, 97
inherited 1, 10–11, 68, 77, 82, 86, 110–112
instinct 27
interplay 2–3, 65, 98, 101–102
Israeli kibbutzniks 72
Jackson, P.S. 24
Japanese quail 71
Johnson, M.H. 20
jungle fowl 20
Kacelnik, A. 20
Kahlenberg, S.M. 95
Kasamutsu, T. 53
Keller, E.F. 78
Klopfer, P.H. 39
Knudsen, E.I. 21
Korean War, the 50
Krebs, J.R. 57
Laland, K. 11
learning 6, 11, 17–18, 19–21, 23–26, 28, 35, 71–73, 97–98, 101, 103, 109–111
Lehrman, D.S. 28
Lewontin, R. 79
local optima 95
Maccoby, E.E. 72
males 16, 60, 71, 91, 95–96, 107, 112
Mameli, M. 28
mammals 4, 10, 11, 25, 62, 65, 67, 70, 71, 81, 93, 109, 111, 116, 63
Marconnato, F. 20
Martinho, A. 20
Martin, Paul 7–8, 13, 40, 93, 97
McKay, D. 55
McKenna, A. 115
Mendelian inheritance 82
metabolic rate 104
metaphors 4, 17, 32, 79, 87–88, 96, 113, 117
mice 81
Michel, A.P. 107
Miska, E.A. 85
mole 9
Molenaar, P.C.M. 5
mother/child relationship 21–23, 34, 62–66, 89. See also parent/offspring relationship
bonding 21
in animals 34
in humans 21
mountain delphinium 69
Munz, T. 58
Murray, L. 21
Narvaez, D. 115
natural selection 3, 10, 88, 105, 113
negotiation 60
Nettle, D. 96
niche construction 92
niches 111
Noble, Denis 77
offspring 3–4, 16–17, 25, 33, 40, 57, 61–66, 69–71, 74, 75, 82, 89, 95, 107, 110, 116, 117
Oliverio, A. 47
organism 3, 12, 18, 35–37, 77, 79–81, 85, 86, 87, 91–92, 99–100, 105, 106, 108, 111, 113, 115–117
outbreeding 4, 67–70, 75–76, 117
parent/offspring relationship 3–4, 17, 40, 62–66, 82, 95, 116
parents 1, 3–4, 19, 23–26, 30, 35, 43, 49, 57, 61–62, 65, 69, 75, 82, 89, 97, 100, 104, 108, 115–116. See also bonding
Pettigrew, J.D. 53
phobia 51
plasticity 1, 34–35, 49–53, 55, 84–85, 99–100, 105–106, 108, 111–114
play 5–6, 24, 27, 49, 62, 72, 75, 80, 93–97, 109, 110, 113, 116
acquisition of experience 94–95
and parental overprotection 115
predisposition 20, 21, 110, 111
preferences 4, 20–21, 22, 30, 49, 55, 72–73, 89, 115–116
Price, M.V. 69
primatology 6
proteins 80
psychotherapy 51
reciprocity 3, 27, 36, 37, 116
Reese, E.P. 23
Regolin, L. 20
reproductive success 16, 61, 63, 64, 65, 67, 73, 88, 105
Rhagoletis pomonella 107
rhesus monkeys 34
rickets 105
Rosenblatt, J.S. 28
Rowell, C.H.F. 87
selection pressure 105
sensitive period 20, 21, 48, 55
sexual selection 107
Shapiro, J. 85
Shenk, D. 5
Shields, J. 84
signalling 59–60, 63. See also communication
Simpson, M.J.A. 34
social insects 65. See also honey bees
Spector, T. 84
Spencer, J.P. 5
Stevenson Hinde, J. 19
stickleback 111
Stockholm syndrome 52
Stotz, K. 78
Strohl, K.P. 44
Sultan, S. 78
systems 2, 3, 4, 12, 14–16, 21, 26, 28–29, 31–33, 36–37, 41, 44, 54, 70, 80–81, 85, 87, 89, 94, 102–103, 111, 113, 115, 117–118
tantrums 62
‘flooding’ 51
Thomas, A.J. 44
Tobach, E. 28
Trevarthen, C. 21
Trivers, Robert 61
Turner, D.C. 43
United States of America 50, 51, 53, 61, 67
Valentino, K. 115
Vidal, J.-M. 24
visual system 53
Waddington, C.H. 3, 28–29, 31, 50, 85, 102
Waser, N.M. 69
Wilson, E.O. 73
Wrangham, R.W. 95
Wright, S. 69
Yudkin, Michael 7
Zahavi, Avishag 59
Zappella, M. 47