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Conceptual breakthroughs in ethology and animal behavior /

"Conceptual Breakthroughs in Ethology and Animal Behavior highlights, through concise summaries, the most important discoveries and scientific revolutions in animal behavior. These are assessed for their relative impact on the field and their significance to the forward motion of the science of...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Breed, Michael D. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Academic Press, 2017.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction
  • 50,000 years before present : the dawn of human evolution
  • 12,000 years before present : domestication
  • 1623 : social behavior
  • 1700s : classifying life
  • 1729 : biological clocks
  • 1800s : birds in their natural setting
  • 1800s : the great explorers
  • 1859 : Darwin and behavior
  • 1859 : Darwin and social insects
  • 1882 : George Romanes and the birth of comparative psychology
  • 1894 : Morgan's canon
  • 1914 : Sensory physiology and behavior
  • 1938 : Skinner and learning
  • 1940 : orientation
  • 1941 : bat echolocation
  • 1947 : the evolution of clutch size
  • 1948 : cognitive maps
  • 1948 : hormones and behavior
  • 1948 : information theory
  • 1953 : the chasm between ethology and comparative psychology
  • 1954 : life history phenomena
  • 1954 : zeitgebers (time-givers) for biological clocks
  • 1956 : the Coolidge effect
  • 1957 : psychophysical laws
  • 1960 : motivation and drive
  • 1963 : the four questions
  • 1964 : dopamine and reward reinforcement
  • 1964 : inclusive fitness and the evolution of altruism
  • 1965 : Harry Harlow and social isolation in monkeys
  • 1967 : island biogeography
  • 1968 : tool use
  • 1969 : territoriality and habitat choice
  • 1970 : sperm competition
  • 1971 : behavioral genetics
  • 1971 : reciprocal altruism
  • 1971 : selfish herds
  • 1973 : episodic memory
  • 1973 : game theory
  • 1973 : the many eyes hypothesis
  • 1973 : the Red Queen
  • 1973 : animal conflict
  • 1974 : Caenorhabditis elegans behavioral genetics
  • 1974 : standardizing behavioral observation methods
  • 1974 : parent-offspring conflict
  • 1975 : group selection
  • 1975 : sociobiology
  • 1975 : the handicap principle
  • 1976 : marginal value theorem
  • 1977 : self-medication
  • 1977 : the evolution of mating systems
  • 1978 : animal models for depression
  • 1978 : theory of mind
  • 1980 : dispersal
  • 1980 : semantic communication
  • 1980 : the risk paradigm
  • 1981 : prisoner's dilemma
  • 1981 : producers and scroungers
  • 1982 : the Hamilton-Zuk hypothesis
  • 1982 : the hippocampus and navigation
  • 1983 : reproductive skew
  • 1985 : an animal model for anxiety
  • 1988 : brood parasitism
  • 1990 : fear
  • 1990 : the challenge hypothesis
  • 1991 : pain in animals
  • 1991 : receiver psychology
  • 1992 : working memory
  • 1994 : ecosystem engineers
  • 1996 : conservation behavior
  • 1996 : the molecular basis of learning
  • 1998 : self-organization of social systems
  • 1998 : gaze following
  • 1999 : multimodal communication
  • 2000 : emotion and the brain
  • 2000 : social amoebas and their genomes
  • 2002 : social networks
  • 2004 : behavioral syndromes
  • personality in animals
  • 2004 : maternal epigenetics
  • 2004 : public and private information
  • 2014 : keystone individuals.