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Title

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

Publication

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1996], ©1996.

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Additional Authors

• Houck, Lynne D.
• Drickamer, Lee C.
• Animal Behavior Society.

Description

xvi, 843 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Subject

Animal behavior

Note

• "Published in association with the Animal Behavior Society."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• 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 mechanisms 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.

ISBN

• 0226354563 (cloth : acid₋b-₋sfree paper)
• 0226354571 (paper : acid₋b-₋sfree paper)

LCCN

96033734

OCLC

• 34321442
• ocm34321442

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