Research Catalog

Title

Conceptual breakthroughs in ethology and animal behavior / Michael D. Breed.

Author

Breed, Michael D.

Publication

• London, United Kingdom : Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, [2017]
• ©2017

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Details

Description

xxxvi, 250 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

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 animal behavior. Eighty short essays capture the moment when a new concept emerged or a publication signaled a paradigm shift. How the new understanding came about is explained, and any continuing controversy or scientific conversation on the issue is highlighted. Behavior is a rich and varied field, drawing on genetics, evolution, physiology, and ecology to inform its principles, and this book embraces the wealth of knowledge that comes from the unification of these fields around the study of animals in motion. The chronological organization of the essays makes this an excellent overview of the history of animal behavior, ethology, and behavioral ecology. The work includes such topics as Darwin's role in shaping the study of animal behavior, the logic of animal contests, cognition, empathy in animals, and animal personalities. Succinct accounts of new revelations about behavior through scientific investigation and scrutiny reveal the fascinating story of this field. Similar to Dr. John Avise's Contemporary Breakthroughs in Evolutionary Genetics, the work is structured into vignettes that describe the conceptual revolution and assess the impact of the conceptual change, with a score, which ranges from 1-10, providing an assessment of the impact of the new findings on contemporary science.

Subject

• Animal behavior
• Verhaltensforschung

Bibliography (note)

• Contains bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• Text in English.

Contents

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.

Call Number

JFE 17-6268

ISBN

• 9780128092651
• 0128092653

OCLC

959593100

Author

Breed, Michael D., author.

Title

Conceptual breakthroughs in ethology and animal behavior / Michael D. Breed.

Publisher

London, United Kingdom : Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, [2017]

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Contains bibliographical references and index.

Language

Text in English.

Research Call Number

JFE 17-6268