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Agonistic behaviour, like any other trait, develops through a continuous interaction between genetic and environmental factors. So if we wish to understand how diversity in agonistic behaviour arises we need to investigate its genetic bases and how these interact with the developmental environment. In addition, because inherited variation is the raw material on which natural selection acts, a study of the genetics of agonistic behaviour provides a background to the functional issues raised in Chapter 11. In this chapter, in which we assume that the reader has an understanding of the principles of classical genetics, as presented in any standard biology textbook, we are trying to answer the following questions.
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© 1987 Felicity A. Huntingford and Angela K. Turner
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Huntingford, F.A., Turner, A.K. (1987). Genetics. In: Huntingford, F.A., Turner, A.K. (eds) Animal Conflict. Chapman and Hall Animal Behaviour Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3145-9_7
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