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Aggression

The latest volume in the widely-praised Advances in Genetics series

Robert Huber (Volume editor), Danika L. Bannasch (Volume editor), Patricia Brennan (Volume editor)

9780123808585, Elsevier Science

Hardback, published 2 December 2011

304 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.3 cm, 0.72 kg

Genes interact with the environment, experience, and biology of the brain to shape an animal’s behavior. This latest volume in Advances in Genetics, organized according to the most widely used model organisms, describes the latest genetic discoveries in relation to neural circuit development and activity.

Introduction - Aggression

Part I

  1. Functional and Phylogenetic Aspects of Aggression: The Consequences of Sexual Selection
  2. Signaling Aggression - aggressive intent and fighting ability
  3. The Self-Structuring Properties of Dominance Hierarchies: A New Perspective

    4. Part II

  4. Aggression in Songbirds: Hormones, Neural Circuits, and Genes
  5. Sex, Drugs, and Violence: Neurobiology of Aggression in Monogamous Prairie Voles
  6. The Neurochemistry of Human Aggression

    7. Part III

  7. Human Aggression across the Lifespan: Genetic Propensities and Environmental Moderators
  8. Preinatal Risk Factors in the Development of Aggression and Violence
  9. Neurocriminology

Subject Areas: Animal breeding [TVHB], Animal behaviour [PSVP], Genetics [non-medical PSAK], Animals & society [JFFZ]
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