商品簡介
Whitehead (biology, Dalhousie U., Canada) uses statistical methodologies to explore the social behavior and cultural traits of sperm whales within the context of their evolutionary and ecological niche. He devotes separate chapters to the habitat, migratory patterns, population dynamics, behavior and vocalizations, social structures, and culture (differentiable behavior among groups). This material is then used to tease out some hypotheses about social and cultural evolution in the open ocean. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Hal Whitehead is the Killam Professor in the Department of Biology at Dalhousie University in Canada. He is the author of Voyage to the Whales and coeditor of Cetacean Societies: Field Studies of Dolphins and Whales, the latter published by the University of Chicago Press.
