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There are three distinct questions which can be asked about evolution and behaviour. These are: Does an animal’s behaviour influence its chances of surviving and/or reproducing and if so how? By what phylogenetic route has the behaviour evolved? and Does behaviour have a special role in the evolutionary process and if so what is it? This chapter is about the first ofthese questions; the other two are discussed in Chapters 6 and 7 respectively.
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© 1984 Felicity Huntingford
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Huntingford, F. (1984). The adaptive significance of behavior. In: The Study of Animal Behaviour. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5536-3_5
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