Peter L. Hurd

Moscicki MK, Reddon AR, Hurd PL (2011). Lateralized behaviour of a non-social cichlid fish (Amatitlania nigrofasciata) in a social and a non-social environment. Behavioral Processes 88: 27–32. (doi:10.1016/j.beproc.2011.07.004).
Dinsdale NL, Reddon AR, Hurd PL (2011). Sex differences in the relationship between aggressiveness and the strength of handedness in Humans. Laterality. 16: 385-400. (doi:10.1080/13576501003683087)
Hurd PL, Vaillancourt K, Dinsdale NL (2011). Aggression, digit ratio and variation in Androgen Receptor and Monoamine Oxidase A genes in men. Behavior Genetics 41: 543-556. (doi:10.1007/s10519-010-9404-7)
Gutiérrez-Ibáñez C, Reddon AR, Kreuzer MB, Wylie DR, Hurd PL. (2011). Variation in asymmetry of the habenular nucleus correlates with behavioural asymmetry in a cichlid fish. Behavioural Brain Research. 221: 189-196. (doi:10.1016/j.bbr.2011.03.001)
Guillette LM, Bailey AA, Reddon AR, Hurd PL, Sturdy CB, 2010. Capture order is repeatable in chickadees. International Journal of Comparative Psychology 23: 216-224. (pdf)
Enquist M, Hurd PL & Ghirlanda S. 2010. Signalling, Chapter 16. In Westneat DF & Fox CW (eds) Evolutionary Behavioral Ecology, Oxford University Press. pp 266-284.
Hurd PL. 2010. Honest Signaling. In Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior. Breed MD & Moore J (eds.). pp 84-88. Academic Press: Oxford.
Garamszegi LZ, Calhim S, Dochtermann N, Hegyi G, Hurd PL, Jørgensen C, Kutsukake N, Lajeunesse MJ, Pollard KA, Schielzeth H, Symonds MRE, Nakagawa S, 2009. Changing philosophies and tools for statistical inferences in behavioral ecology. Behavioural Ecology 20: 1363-1375. (doi:10.1093/beheco/arp137, affiliated BeStat website)
Hurd PL, 2009. Pitting the boys against the girls (Book review: Roughgarden J, The Genial Gene: Deconstructing Darwinian Fitness), Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 24: 646-647. (doi:10.1016/j.tree.2009.08.010, supplemental notes).
Guillette LM, Reddon AR, Hurd PL, Sturdy CB. 2009. Exploration of a novel space is associated with individual differences in learning speed in black-capped chickadees, Poecile atricapillus. Behavioural Processes 82: 265-270. (doi:10.1016/j.beproc.2009.07.005 )
Reddon AR & Hurd PL. 2009. Acting unilaterally: Why do animals with strongly lateralized brains behave differently than those with weakly lateralized brains? Bioscience Hypotheses 2: 383-387. (doi:10.1016/j.bihy.2009.06.007)
Reddon AR & Hurd PL. 2009. Sex differences in the cerebral lateralization of a cichlid fish when detouring to view emotionally conditioned stimuli. Behavioural Processes 82: 25-29. (doi:10.1016/j.beproc.2009.03.005)
Yan RH, Brunning M, Wahlsten D & Hurd PL. 2009. Digit ratio (2D:4D) differences between 20 strains of inbred mice. PLoS ONE. 4: e5801. (doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0005801
Reddon AR, Gutiérrez-Ibáñez C, Wylie DR & Hurd PL. 2009. The relationship between growth, brain asymmetry and behavioural lateralization in a cichlid fish. Behavioural Brain Research 201: 223-228. (doi:10.1016/j.bbr.2009.02.015)
Hamblin S & Hurd PL. 2009. When will evolution lead to deceptive signalling in the Sir Philip Sidney game? Theoretical Population Biology 75: 176-182. (doi:10.1016/j.tpb.2009.02.002)
Reddon AR & Hurd PL. 2009. Differences in aggressive behavior between convict cichlid color morphs: amelanistic convicts lose even with a size advantage. Acta Ethologica 12 49-53. (doi:10.1007/s10211-009-0054-9)
Moroschan G, Hurd PL, Nicoladis E, 2009. Sex differences in the use of indirect aggression in adult Canadians. Evolutionary Psychology. 7: 146-159. (PDF)
Reddon AR & Hurd PL. 2009. Individual differences in cerebral lateralization are associated with shy-bold variation in the convict cichlid. Animal Behaviour 77: 189-193. (doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.09.026)
Yan RHY, Malisch JL, Hannon RM, Hurd PL & Garland T Jr. 2008. Selective breeding for a behavioral trait changes digit ratio. PLoS ONE 3: e2316 (doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0003216)
Reddon AR & Hurd PL. 2008. Aggression, sex and individual differences in cerebral lateralization in a cichlid fish. Biology Letters 4: 338-340. (doi:10.1098/rsbl.2008.0206)
Hurd PL, Bailey AA, Gongal PA, Yan RH, Greer JJ & Pagliardini S. 2008. Intrauterine position effects on anogenital distance and digit ratio in male and female mice. Archives of Sexual Behavior 37: 9-18. (doi:10.1007/s10508-007-9259-z)
Hamblin S & Hurd PL. 2007. Genetic algorithms and non-ESS solutions to game theory models. Animal Behaviour 74: 1005-1018. (doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.01.013)
Brown AA, Spetch ML, & Hurd PL. 2007. Growing in circles:Rearing environment mediates spatial navigation in fish. Psychological Science 18: 569-573. (doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2007.01941.x)
Hurd PL & van Anders SM. 2007. Latitude, digit ratios, and Allen's and Bergmann's rules: A comment on Loehlin, McFadden, Medland, and Martin (2006). Archives of Sexual Behavior 36: 139-141. (doi:10.1007/s10508-006-9149-9)
Iwaniuk AN, Hurd PL & Wylie DRW. 2007. Comparative morphology of the avian cerebellum: II. Relative size of folia. Brain Behavior & Evolution 69: 196-219. (doi:10.1159/000096987)
Hurd PL. 2006. Resource holding potential, subjective resource value, and game theoretical models of aggressiveness signalling. Journal of Theoretical Biology 241: 639-648. (doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2006.01.001)
Iwaniuk AN, Hurd PL & Wylie DRW. 2006. Comparative morphology of the avian cerebellum: I. Degree of foliation. Brain Behavior & Evolution 68: 45-62. (doi:10.1159/000093530)
Hurd PL. 2006. Debating sexual selection and mating strategies (letter) Science 312: 692-693.
Hurd PL, & Wahlsten D. 2006. No sex difference in mouse digit ratio: reply to Voracek (letter) Genes Brain and Behavior 5: 300--302.
Iwaniuk AN, Hurd PL & Wylie DRW. 2006. The comparative morphology of the cerebellum in caprimulgiform birds: evolutionary and functional implications. Brain Behavior & Evolution 67: 53-68. (doi:10.1159/000089120)
Hurd PL & Enquist M. 2005. A strategic taxonomy of biological communication. Animal Behaviour 70: 1155-1170 (doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2005.02.014)
Bailey AA & Hurd PL, 2005. Depression in men is associated with more feminine finger length ratios. Personality and Individual Differences 39: 829-836. (doi:10.1016/j.paid.2004.12.017)
Bailey AA, Wahlsten D & Hurd PL, 2005. Digit ratio (2D:4D) and behavioral differences between inbred mouse strains. Genes, Brain & Behavior 4: 318-323. (doi:10.1111/j.1601-183X.2004.00110.x)
Pakan JMP, Todd KG, Nguyen AP, Winship IR, Hurd PL, Jantzie L & Wylie DRW, 2005. Inferior olivary neurons innervate multiple zones of the flocculus in pigeons (Columba livia). Journal of Comparative Neurology 486: 159-168. (doi:10.1002/cne.20523)
Iwaniuk AN & Hurd PL, 2005. The evolution of cerebrotypes in birds. Brain Behavior & Evolution 65: 215-230. (doi:10.1159/000084313)
Winship IR, Hurd PL, & Wylie DRW, 2005. Spatiotemporal tuning of optic flow inputs to the vestibulocerebellum in pigeons: Differences between mossy and climbing fiber pathways. Journal of Neurophysiology 93: 1266-1277. (doi:10.1152/jn.00815.2004)
Bailey AA & Hurd PL, 2005. Finger length ratio predicts physical aggression in men but not women. Biological Psychology 68: 215-222. (doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2004.05.001)
Hurd PL, 2004. Conventional displays: evidence for socially mediated costs of threat displays in a lizard. Aggressive Behavior 30: 326-341. (doi:10.1002/ab.20020)
Nguyen AP, Spetch ML, Crowder NA, Winship IR, Hurd PL & Wylie DRW. 2004. A dissociation of motion and spatial-pattern vision in the avian telencephalon: implications for the evolution of "visual streams". Journal of Neuroscience 24: 4962-4970. (doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0146-04.2004)
Ryan MR, Rand W, Hurd PL, Phelps SM & Rand AS, 2003. Generalization in response to allopatric mate recognition signals.American Naturalist 161: 380-394. (doi:10.1086/367588)
Hurd PL & Enquist M, 2001. Threat display in birds. Canadian Journal of Zoology 79: 931-942. (doi:10.1139/cjz-79-6-931)
Enquist M, Ghirlanda S, and Hurd, PL. 1998. Discrete conventional signalling of continuously varying resource value. Animal Behaviour 56: 749--753. (doi:10.1006/anbe.1998.0820)
Hurd PL & Enquist M. 1998. Conventional signalling in aggressive interactions: the importance of temporal structure. Journal of Theoretical Biology 192: 197-211. (doi:10.1006/jtbi.1997.0611)
Ydenberg RC & Hurd P. 1998. Simple models of feeding with time and energy constraints. Behavioral Ecology 9: 49-53. (doi:10.1093/beheco/9.1.49)
Hurd PL, 1997. Game theoretical perspectives on conflict and biological communication. Ph.D. dissertation, Stockholm University. ISBN 91-87272-54-7.
Hurd PL, 1997. Cooperative signalling between opponents in fish fights. Animal Behaviour 54: 1309-1315. (PDF)
Hurd PL, 1997. Is signalling of fighting ability costlier for weaker individuals? Journal of Theoretical Biology 184: 83-88. (PDF)
Hurd PL & Ydenberg RC, 1996. Calculating the ESS level of information transfer in aggressive communication. Evolutionary Ecology 10: 221-232. (PDF)
Hurd PL, Wachtmeister C-A & Enquist M, 1995. Darwin's principle of antithesis revisited: a role for perceptual biases in the evolution of intraspecific signals. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B259: 201-205. (PDF)
Hurd PL, 1995. Communication in discrete action-response games. Journal of Theoretical Biology 174: 217-222. (PDF)
Hurd PL, 1994. Night use by ducklings of active American Coot, Fulica americana, nests. Canadian Field Naturalist 107: 364. (PDF)
Hurd PL, 1993. Evolutionary analysis of fighting in the American Coot (Fulica americana). M.Sc. thesis, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby.
Hurd PL, 1992. American Coot kills Yellow-headed Blackbird nestlings. Wilson Bulletin104: 552--553. (PDF)
Hurd PL, Weatherhead PJ & McRae SB, 1991. Parental consumption of nestling feces: good food or sound economics? Behavioral Ecology 2: 69-76. (PDF)
Hurd PL, 1990. Why parent birds ingest nestling feces: some possible non-dietary causes. B.Sc. thesis, Carleton University, Ottawa.

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