Richard D. Alexander

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Biology

#487

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#858

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#287

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Evolutionary Biology

#37

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#50

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#23

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Zoology

#29

World Rank

#111

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#10

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According to Wikipedia, Richard D. Alexander was an American zoologist who was a professor at the University of Michigan and curator at the university's museum of zoology of in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His scientific pursuits integrated the fields of systematics, ecology, evolution, natural history and behavior. The salient organisms in his research are wide-ranging, from the orthopterans and Cicadidae to vertebrates: dogs, horses, and primates, including humans.

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Richard D. Alexander's Published Works

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The evolution of social behavior (1974) (2187)
The biology of moral systems (1989) (1669)
Darwinism and human affairs (1979) (888)
Aggressiveness, Territoriality, and Sexual Behavior in Field Crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) (1961) (593)
The Biology of the Naked Mole-Rat (2017) (570)
Sexual dimorphisms and breeding systems in pinnipeds, ungulates, primates, and humans (1979) (507)
A Comparative Review (1968) (399)
EVOLUTIONARY CHANGE IN CRICKET ACOUSTICAL COMMUNICATION (1962) (360)
NATURAL SELECTION AND SPECIALIZED CHORUSING BEHAVIOR IN ACOUSTICAL INSECTS (1975) (278)
Natural Selection and Social Behavior: Recent Research and New Theory (1981) (251)
Acoustical Communication in Arthropods (1967) (245)
The search for a general theory of behavior (1975) (241)
How did humans evolve? Reflections on the uniquely unique species. (1990) (237)
The Evolution of Mating Systems in Insects and Arachnids: Evolutionary perspectives on insect mating (1997) (227)
Local Mate Competition and Parental Investment in Social Insects (1977) (208)
Epigenetic rules and Darwinian algorithms: The adaptive study of learning and development (1990) (205)
Life Cycle Origins, Speciation, and Related Phenomena in Crickets (1968) (189)
ON THE ORIGIN AND BASIS OF THE MALE-FEMALE PHENOMENON (1979) (181)
The evolution of genitalia and mating behavior in crickets (Gryllidae) and other Orthoptera (1967) (169)
ALLOCHRONIC SPECIATION IN FIELD CRICKETS, AND A NEW SPECIES, ACHETA VELETIS (1960) (158)
Natural Selection and Social Behaviour (1982) (146)
The Australian crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) (1983) (144)
The evolutionary relationships of 17-year and 13-year cicadas, and three new species (Homoptera, Cicadidae, Magicicada) (1963) (143)
Ostracism and indirect reciprocity: The reproductive significance of humor (1986) (128)
Framing Discourse on the Environment: A Critical Discourse Approach (2008) (122)
Culture theory: The developing synthesis from biology (1982) (122)
The Taxonomy of the Field Crickets of the Eastern United States (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Acheta) (1957) (113)
Studies on the Acoustical Behavior of Seventeen-Year Cicadas (Homoptera: Cicadidae: Magicicada) (1958) (85)
A BIOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF MORAL SYSTEMS (1985) (83)
Sound Production and Associated Behavior in Insects (1957) (68)
The Role of Behavioral Study in Cricket Classification (1962) (67)
Field crickets (Gryllus and Acheta) of California and Baja California, Mexico (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Gryllinae). (1980) (64)
Sub-Social Behavior in a Burrowing Cricket Anurogryllus Muticus (De Geer) Orthoptera: Gryllidae (1963) (63)
Human hips, breasts and buttocks: Is fat deceptive? (1987) (61)
Insect control. (1975) (60)
Systematic and Behavioral Studies on the Crickets of the Nemobius Fasciatus Group (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Nemobiinae)1 (1959) (54)
The evolutionary differentiation of stridulatory signals in beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) (1963) (52)
10. Social Organization of Naked Mole-Rat Colonies: Evidence for Divisions of Labor (2017) (52)
4. The Population Structure of Naked Mole-Rat Colonies (2017) (46)
Seasonal and Daily Chirping Cycles in the Northern Spring and Fall Field Crickets, Gryllus Veletis and G. Pennsylvanicus (1967) (46)
5. The Ecology of Naked Mole-Rat Colonies: Burrowing, Food, and Limiting Factors (2017) (42)
Biology and law (1986) (39)
Knowledge, Intent, and Morality in Darwin's World (1988) (37)
A comparative study of sound production in insects : with special reference to the singing Orthoptera and Cicadidae of the eastern United States (1956) (34)
7 – Natural Selection and Social Exchange (1979) (32)
Two Introduced Field Crickets New to Eastern United States (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) (1962) (32)
Mating behavior and the origin of insect wings (1962) (31)
The Robust Conehead: Two Widespread Sibling Species (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Neoconocephalus "Robustus") (1973) (26)
3. Ecology and Behavior of the Family Bathyergidae (2017) (26)
Social learning and kin recognition : An addendum and reply to Sherman (1991) (26)
Evolution, Human Behavior, and Determinism (1976) (21)
The Song Relationships of Four Species of Ground Crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Nemobius) (1957) (20)
Cannibalism During Copulation in the Brown Bush Cricket, Hapithus Agitator (Gryllidae) (1967) (19)
12. Growth and Factors Affecting Body Size in Naked Mole-Rats (2017) (18)
Evolution, Creation, and Biology Teaching. (1978) (17)
Animal Species, Evolution, and Geographic Isolation (1963) (17)
Natural Selection and Societal Laws (1981) (17)
Biology and the moral paradoxes (1982) (17)
The Courtship and Copulation of Pasimachus punctulatus Haldemann (Coleoptera: Carabidae) (1959) (15)
8. An Ethogram for the Naked Mole-Rat: Nonvocal Behaviors (2017) (15)
Book Review: The Challenge of Human Social Behavior (2006) (15)
13. Reproduction of Naked Mole-Rats (2017) (13)
Correlations Among Life History Characteristics of ' ^ i Mammalian Species Exhibiting Two Extreme Forms of Monogamy (2008) (13)
14. Hormonal and Behavioral Aspects of Reproductive Suppression in Female Naked Mole-Rats (2017) (11)
2. Systematics and Evolution of the Family Bathyergidae (2017) (11)
New Records of Michigan Cicadidae (Homoptera), With Notes on the Use of Songs to Monitor Range Changes (1996) (11)
Systematic and behavioral studies on the meadow grasshoppers of the Orchelimum concinnum group (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) (1962) (10)
The Distribution of Periodical Cicada Brood III in 1997, with Special Emphasis on Illinois (Hemiptera: Magicicada spp.) (2013) (9)
Appendix: Methods for Capturing, Transporting, and Maintaining Naked Mole-Rats in Captivity (2017) (7)
Nemobius Melodius, a New Species of Cricket from Ohio (Orthoptera, Gryllidae) (1957) (7)
Darwin’s challenges and the future of human society (2014) (7)
7. Genetic Variation within and among Populations of the Naked Mole-Rat: Evidence from Nuclear and Mitochondrial Genomes (2017) (6)
15. Some Unanswered Questions about Naked Mole-Rats (2017) (6)
Communicative Mandible-Snapping in Acrididae (Orthoptera) (1960) (6)
Sound production and communication in insects (1958) (5)
11. Intracolonial Aggression and Nepotism by the Breeding Female Naked Mole-Rat (2017) (5)
1. The Evolution of Eusociality (2017) (4)
Genes, consciousness, and behavior theory. (1992) (4)
A Review of the Genus Gryllus (Orthoptera: Gryllidae), With a New Species From Korea (1991) (4)
General and Theoretical: The Use and Abuse of Biology: An Anthropological Critique of Sociobiology. Marshall D. Sahlins (1977) (4)
Evolution, Social Behavior, and Ethics (1981) (3)
Reflections on the Uniquely Unique Species (2008) (3)
Response to Judith Anderson's comments on Low, Alexander, and Noonan (1987) (1988) (3)
9. Vocalizations of the Naked Mole-Rat (2017) (2)
Chapter 61 – Crickets (2009) (2)
The Singing Insects of Michigan (2017) (2)
10. The Evolution of Cricket Chirps (1987) (1)
Evolution of Sterile Castes in the Social Insects: Kin Selection or Parental Manipulation? (1974) (1)
Communicative Systems of Animals: Acoustic Behavior. (1964) (1)
Protests unexpected editorial changes. (1967) (1)
Basic research and public support. (1967) (0)
William D. Hamilton Remembered: A revolutionary thinker, Hamilton gave biologists the tools for understanding sociality in all organisms. (2000) (0)
Alexander's Indian case-law on torts (0)
Recent Publications (1980) (0)
The management of racial integration in business (1964) (0)
International Conference on Systematic Biology (2008) (0)
Biology and The Background of Moral Systems (2017) (0)
Morality As Seen By Philosophers and Biologists (2017) (0)
Applying The Biological View of Morality (2017) (0)
Biology and Culture (2013) (0)
Evolution and Religion (2013) (0)
The Social Insects (1981) (0)
International conference on systematic biology (2008) (0)
25. Evolution of the Human Psyche (0)
Free Materials (1980) (0)
A Biological View of Morality (2017) (0)
Exploring the Moon (2017) (0)
Evolution of Human Intelligence (2013) (0)
6. Which Naked Mole-Rats Volcano? (2017) (0)

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