John Alcock (/ˈælkɒk/; November 13, 1942 – January 15, 2023) was an American behavioral ecologist and author. He was the Emeritus' Professor in the School...
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12(2):151 Alcock, J. 1989. The mating system of Mydas ventralis (Diptera: Mydidae). Psyche 96:167-176 [1] Archived 2019-07-18 at the Wayback Machine Alcock, J...
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naturalist, and carcinologist. Alcock was the son of a sea-captain, John Alcock in Bombay, India who retired to live in Blackheath. His mother was a...
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Sociobiology (redirect from Social biology)
Modern Denial of Human Nature. New York: Viking. p. 145 Bibliography Alcock, John (2001). The triumph of sociobiology. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press...
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In biology, altruism refers to behaviour by an individual that increases the fitness of another individual while decreasing their own. Altruism in this...
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are also good explanations." In his book The Triumph of Sociobiology, John Alcock suggested that the term just-so story as applied to proposed evolved...
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Divergent evolution (redirect from Divergence (biology))
1687–1689. doi:10.1126/science.276.5319.1687. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 9180076. Alcock, John (2013). Animal Behavior: An Evolutionary Approach, Tenth Edition. pp...
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1894 by the English physician, naturalist and carcinologist Alfred William Alcock with its type locality given as the Bay of Bengal, as its only species....
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sound (Alcock 2001:101–103). Many primate species learn to fear snakes with little experience (Wilson, 1998:86–87). See developmental biology and developmental...
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Not in Our Genes (redirect from Not in Our Genes: Biology, Ideology and Human Nature)
Segerstråle 2000, pp. 99, 177, 191–192, 299. Alcock 2001, pp. 52–53. Pinker 2003, pp. 112–113, 127. Books Alcock, John (2001). The Triumph of Sociobiology. New...
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