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- Editors:
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Donald H. Owings
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Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, Davis, USA
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Michael D. Beecher
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Animal Behavior Program Departments of Psychology and Zoology, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
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Nicholas S. Thompson
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Departments of Biology and Psychology, Clark University, Worcester, USA
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ON THE FUTURE OF PERSPECTIVES When Patrick Bateson and Peter Klopfer offered me the editorship of Perspectives in 1992, the world of academic publishing was in one of its periodic upheavals. Subscriptions to series-even distinguished series such as Perspec tives-had been declining and individual volume prices had been rising, a trend that if continued could only result in the series pricing itself out of the market. In the course of the negotiations around the change of editors, the publishers offered a cost-cutting solution: change the production pattern to "camera ready" and elimi nate the costs of indexing and proofreading. While I could see the sense in this proposal, I was reluctant to accept it. Part of what I had always liked about the volumes in this series was that they were real books, intelligently proofread, nicely laid out, and provided with proper indexes. Thus, I in return offered a "Devil's bargain": the publisher should maintain the present quality of the series for two more volumes and make a renewed effort to advertise the series to our ethological and sociobiological colleagues, while I as the new series editor committed myself to a renewed effort to make Perspectives the publication of choice for writers who are trying to get their message out to the world intact and readers who are seeking clear, coherent, comprehensive and untrammeled presentations of authors' ideas and research programs.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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- Donald H. Owings, Michael D. Beecher, Nicholas S. Thompson
Pages 1-6
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- Marian Stamp Dawkins, Tim Guilford
Pages 55-75
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- Michael D. Beecher, J. Cully Nordby, S. Elizabeth Campbell, John M. Burt, Christopher E. Hill, Adrian L. O’Loghlen
Pages 77-97
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- William J. Hamilton III, John W. McNutt
Pages 179-224
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- Mark S. Blumberg, Jeffrey R. Alberts
Pages 225-249
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- Michael J. Owren, Drew Rendall
Pages 299-346
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- Donald H. Owings, Eugene S. Morton
Pages 359-390
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Back Matter
Pages 417-431
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, Davis, USA
Donald H. Owings
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Animal Behavior Program Departments of Psychology and Zoology, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Michael D. Beecher
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Departments of Biology and Psychology, Clark University, Worcester, USA
Nicholas S. Thompson