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Tinbergen's Legacy : Function and Mechanism in Behavioral Biology.
Cast of leading animal biologists reflect on the enduring significance of Nobel laureate Niko Tinbergen's groundbreaking proposals for behavioural biology.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Leiden :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Foreword: Four decades on from the "four questions"; Preface; On aims and methods of Ethology; 2 Tinbergen's four questions and contemporary behavioral biology; 3 Causation: the study of behavioral mechanisms; 4 Tinbergen's fourth question, ontogeny: sexual and individual differentiation; 5 The development of behavior: trends since Tinbergen (1963); 6 The study of function in behavioral ecology; 7 The evolution of behavior, and integrating it towards a complete and correct understanding of behavioral biology.
- 8 Do ideas about function help in the study of causation?9 Function and mechanism in neuroecology: looking for clues; References; Index.