Dancing Cockatoos and the Dead Man Test: How Behavior Evolves and Why It Matters

by Marlene Zuk

Book Overview

For centuries, people have been returning to the same tired nature-versus-nurture debate, trying to determine what we learn and what we inherit. In Dancing Cockatoos and the Dead Man Test, biologist Marlene Zuk goes beyond the binary and instead focuses on interaction, or the way that genes and environment work together. Driving her investigation is a simple but essential question: How does behavior evolve?

Drawing from a wealth of research,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1324007222
• ISBN13: 9781324007227
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 8.8"