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Foundations of animal behavior : classic papers with commentaries / editors, Lynne D. Houck and Lee C. Drickamer.

Houck, Lynne D., (editor.). Drickamer, Lee C., (editor.). Animal Behavior Society, (issuing body.).

Summary:

Beginning with Darwin's work in the 1870s, Foundations of Animal Behavior selects the most important works from the discipline's first hundred years--forty-four classic papers--and presents them in facsimile, tracing the development of the field. These papers are classics because they either founded a line of investigation, established a basic method, or provided a new approach to an important research question. The papers are divided into six sections, each introduced by prominent researchers. Sections one and two cover the origins and history of the field and the emergence of basic methods and approaches. They provide a background for sections three through six, which focus on development and learning; neural and hormonal mechanisms of behavior; sensory processes, orientation, and communication; and the evolution of behavior. This outstanding collection will serve as the basis for undergraduate and graduate seminars and as a reference for researchers in animal behavior, whether they focus on ethology, behavioral ecology, comparative psychology, or anthropology. Published in association with the Animal Behavior Society.

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ISBN: 9780226354576 (paperback)
Physical Description: xvi, 843 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1996]
Copyright: ©1996

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Includes bibliographical references.

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Introduction / Lynne D. Houck and Lee C. Drickamer -- pt. 1. Historical Origins: The Making of a Science / Bennett G. Galef, Jr. 1. Instinct / Charles Darwin. 2. Introduction / George C. Romanes. 3. Introduction / E.L. Thorndike. 4. What is behaviorism? / J.B. Watson -- pt. 2. The Emerging Science: Defining the Goals, Approaches, and Methods / Lee C. Drickamer and Charles T. Snowdon. 5. A critique of Konrad Lorenz's theory of instinctive behavior / Daniel S. Lehrman. 6. On aims and methods of ethology / Niko Tinbergen. 7. Ethological units of behavior / George W. Barlow. 8. Describing sequences of behavior / Peter J.B. Slater. 9. Observational study of behavior: sampling methods / Jeanne Altmann. 10. A quantitative comparison of the behaviour of a wild and caged baboon group / Thelma E. Rowell. 11. Comparative methods and the concept of homology in the study of behaviour / G.P. Baerends. 12. Scala naturae: Why there is no theory in comparative psychology / William Hodos and C.B.G. Campbell -- pt. 3. Development and Learning: Genetic Influences, Learning, and Instinct / Charles T. Snowdon. 13. Appetites and aversions as constituents of instincts / Wallace Craig. 14. Culturally transmitted patterns of vocal behavior in sparrows / Peter Marler and Miwako Tamura. 15. Prenatal behavior of birds / Gilbert Gottlieb. 16. A gene mutation which changes a behavior pattern / Margaret Bastock. 17. Genetic control of the neuronal network generating cricket song patterns / David R. Bentley and Ronald R. Hoy. 18. Experimental studies of mimicry in some North American Butterflies, Part 1: The monarch, Danaus plexippus, and viceroy, Limenitis archippus, archippus / Jane Van Zandt Brower. 19. Relation of cue to consequence in avoidance learning / John Garcia and Robert A. Koelling. 20. Affectional responses in the infant monkey / Harry F. Harlow and Robert R. Zimmermann -- pt. 4. Neural and Hormonal Mechanisms of Behavior: Physiological Causes and Consequences / Elizabeth Adkins-Regan. 21. The hierarchical organization of nervous mechanisms underlying instinctive behaviour / Niko Tinbergen. 22. Relations between the central nervous system and the peripheral organs / E. von Holst. 23. Exogenous and endogenous components in circadian rhythms / Jurgen Aschoff. 24. Menstrual synchrony and suppression / Martha K. McClintock. 25. Interaction between internal and external environments in the regulation of the reproductive cycle of the ring dove / Daniel S. Lehrman. 26. Effects of different concentrations of androgen upon sexual behavior in castrated male rats / Frank A. Beach and A. Marie Holz-Tucker. 27. Organizing action of prenatally administered testosterone propionate on the tissues mediating mating behavior in the female guinea pig / Charles H. Phoenix, Robert W. Goy, Arnold A. Gerrall and William C. Young. 28. Hunger in the blowfly / Vincent G. Dethier and Dietrich Bodenstein. 29. Energy models of motivation / R.A. Hinde -- pt. 5. Sensory Processes, Orientation, and Communication: Biology of the Umwelt / Fred C. Dyer and H. Jane Brockmann. 30. The "language" and orientation of the honey bee / Karl von Frisch and Martin Lindauer. 31. The sensory basis of obstacle avoidance by flying bats / Donald R. Griffin and Robert Galambos. 32. The detection and evasion of bats by moths / Kenneth D. Roeder and Asher E. Treat. 33. Guideposts of migrating fishes / Arthur D. Hasler. 34. Chemical communication among animals / Edward O. Wilson and William H. Bossert. 35. Bird migration: influence of physiological state upon celestial orientation / Stephen T. Emlen. 36. The logical analysis of animal communication / Peter Marler -- pt. 6. Evolution of Behavior: Approaches to Studying Behavioral Change / Stevan J. Arnold and H. Jane Brockmann. 37. Comparative studies of the motor patterns of Anatinae (1941), translated by Robert Martin, in Studies in Animal and Human Behavior, vol. 2, pp. 14-18, 106-14 / Konrad Lorenz. 38. The evolution of prey-carrying mech anisms in wasps / Howard E. Evans. 39. Adaptations in the kittiwake to cliff-nesting / Esther Cullen. 40. Egg shell removal by the black-headed gull, Larus ridibundus L.; a behaviour component of camouflage / Niko Tinbergen, G.J. Broekhuysen, F. Feekes, J.C.W. Houghton, H. Kruuk and E. Szulc. 41. The genetical evolution of social behaviour, I / William D. Hamilton. 42. On the evolution of mating systems in birds and mammals / Gordon H. Orians. 43. Parental investment and sexual selection / Robert L. Trivers. 44. The logic of animal conflict / John Maynard Smith and George R. Price.