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Dog Behaviour, Evolution, and Cognition.
This is the first book to collate and synthesize the recent burgeoning primary research literature on dog behaviour, evolution, and cognition. The author presents a new ecological approach to the understanding of dog behaviour, demonstrating how dogs can be the subject of rigorous and productive sci...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
OUP Oxford,
2007.
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| Colección: | Oxford biology.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Prologue: comparare necesse est*; Contents; Chapter 1 Dogs in historical perspective, and conceptual issues of the study of their behaviour; Chapter 2 Methodological issues in the behavioural study of the dog; Chapter 3 Dogs in anthropogenic environments: society and family; Chapter 4 A comparative approach to Canis; Chapter 5 Domestication; Chapter 6 The perceptual world of the dog; Chapter 7 Physical-ecological cognition; Chapter 8 Social cognition; Chapter 9 Development of behaviour; Chapter 10 Temperament and personality.
- Chapter 11 Afterword: heading towards 21st-century scienceReferences; Index.