Tinbergen's legacy
Subtitle: function and mechanism in behavioral biology
By: edited by Johan J. Bolhuis, Simon Verhulst.
Contributors: Bolhuis, Johan J.; Verhulst, Simon.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780521874786
Subjects: Tinbergen, Niko, -- 1907-1988.; Tinbergen, Niko, -- 1907-1988.; Animal behavior -- Research.; Ethology -- history.; Behavior, Animal.; Psychology, Comparative -- history.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: On aims and methods of ethology / N. Tinbergen; value: Tinbergen's four questions and contemporary behavioral biology / Jerry A. Hogan and Johan J. Bolhuis; value: Causation : the study of behavioral mechanisms / Jerry A. Hogan; value: Tinbergen's fourth question, ontogeny : sexual and individual differentiation / David Crews and Ton Groothuis; value: The development of behavior : trends since Tinbergen (1963) / Jerry A. Hogan and Johan J. Bolhuis; value: The study of function in behavioral ecology / Innes Cuthill; value: The evolution of behavior, and integrating it towards a complete and correct understanding of behavioral biology / Michael J. Ryan; value: Do ideas about function help in the study of causation? / David F. Sherry; value: Function and mechanism in neuroecology : looking for clues / Johan J. Bolhuis.