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Comparative psychology of invertebrates : the field and laboratory study of insect behavior

Title
Comparative psychology of invertebrates : the field and laboratory study of insect behavior / edited by Gary Greenberg, Ethel Tobach.
Publication
New York : Garland Pub., 1997.

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Additional Authors
  • Greenberg, Gary.
  • Tobach, Ethel, 1921-2015.
Description
xii, 291 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Garland reference library of social science ; vol. 1082. Research in developmental and comparative psychology ; vol. 2
Uniform Title
  • Garland reference library of social science ; v. 1082.
  • Garland reference library of social science. Research in developmental and comparative psychology ; v. 2.
Subject
  • Insects > Behavior
  • Insect societies
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
  • The Role of Controversy in Animal Behavior / Adrian Wenner -- Grades, Levels and Ratchets in Evolution / Niles Eldredge -- Where Have I Heard It All Before - Some Neglected Issues of Invertebrate Learning / Charles I. Abramson -- Macroevolution of a Fixed Action Pattern for Learning - The Exploration Flights of Bees and Wasps / Rudolpf Jander -- Desert Ants - Their Evolution and Contemporary Characteristics / G. M. Dlussky -- Task Allocation and Interaction Rates in Social Insect Colonies / Deborah M. Gordon -- Division of Labor in Social Insect Colonies: Self-Organization and Recent Revelations Regarding Age, Size and Genetic Differences / Robin J. Stuart -- Ecology, Colony Demography, and Social Organization in Ants / James F. A. Traniello -- Adaptation for Social Parasitism in the Slave-Making Ant Genus Polyergus / Howard Topoff --
  • The Role of Workers and Queens in the Colony-Member Recognition Systems of Ants: Are There Any Differences that Predispose Some Kinds of Ants to Social Parasitism? / Thomas M. Alloway -- The Problem of Measuring Associative Learning in Drosophila melanogaster with Proper Procedures to Control for Nonassociative Effects / Michael G. Terry and Jerry Hirsch -- Pseudostinging Behavior of the Harvester Ant Messor sanctus Forel as a Response to Novelty / Ewa J. Godzinska, Anna Szczuka and Julita Korczynska.
ISBN
0815321961 (acid-free paper)
LCCN
96012257
OCLC
  • 34355660
  • ocm34355660
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries