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Tinbergen's legacy : function and mechanism in behavioral biology /

Nobel laureate Niko Tinbergen laid the foundations for the scientific study of animal behaviour with his work on causation, development, function and evolution. In this book, an international cast of leading animal biologists reflect on the enduring significance of Tinbergen's groundbreaking pr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bolhuis, Johan J., Verhulst, Simon
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • On aims and methods of ethology / N. Tinbergen
  • Tinbergen's four questions and contemporary behavioral biology / Jerry A. Hogan and Johan J. Bolhuis
  • Causation : the study of behavioral mechanisms / Jerry A. Hogan
  • Tinbergen's fourth question, ontogeny : sexual and individual differentiation / David Crews and Ton Groothuis
  • The development of behavior : trends since Tinbergen (1963) / Jerry A. Hogan and Johan J. Bolhuis
  • The study of function in behavioral ecology / Innes Cuthill
  • The evolution of behavior, and integrating it towards a complete and correct understanding of behavioral biology / Michael J. Ryan
  • Do ideas about function help in the study of causation? / David F. Sherry
  • Function and mechanism in neuroecology : looking for clues / Johan J. Bolhuis.