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Advances in the Study of Behavior, Volume 58, an annual volume in the field of behavior science, brings together cutting-edge research, theoretical advances, and surveys the latest findings across learning, conditioning, memory, perception, decision-making, and related areas, while also blending behavioral analysis with neuroscience, genetics, and computational modeling. Chapters in this new release include Staying in Sync: Behavioral Synchrony and Cooperation in Dolphins, Bridging human and primate culture: toward a comparative evolutionary framework, Natural and sexual selection on reproduction in the sand goby - a dynamic mosaic in time and space, and Beyond protection from predators: the perks of being warningly colored.
Brief description: Jeff Podos is a Professor of Biology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA. He conducted his dissertation research under the guidance of Stephen Nowicki and Susan Peters, in the Department of Zoology at Duke University (PhD 1996). He then held a post-doctoral fellowship at University of Arizona, Tucson, in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, where he studied with Daniel Papaj. He also held a post-doctoral position at the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia in Manaus, Brazil. In 2000 he took a position in the Biology Department at University of Massachusetts Amherst, and since 2011 has served as director of the UMass Graduate Program in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. His research program focuses on topics in animal communication, with particular emphasis on signal performance, development, and learning in songbirds. In addition to work on North American sparrows, he has a long-standing research project on Darwin's finches of the Galapagos Islands, addressing the interface of behavior, ecology, in species divergence. Additional collaborative research projects are addressing topics in Neotropical ornithology and bioacoustics. He has served editorship positions with three other journals: Animal Behaviour, Bird Behavior, and Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology, and is currently President-Elect of the Animal Behavior Society.