Research Catalog

Title

Leaders in animal behaviour : the second generation / edited by Lee Drickamer, Donald A. Dewsbury.

Publication

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2010.

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Additional Authors

• Drickamer, Lee C.
• Dewsbury, Donald A., 1939-

Description

viii, 624 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Summary

"Animal behavior, as a discipline, has undergone several key transitions over the last 25 years, growing in both depth and breadth. Key advances have been made in behavioural ecology and socio-biology, in the development of studies integrating proximate and ultimate causation, in the integration of laboratory and field work, and in advances in theoretical work in areas such as sexual selection, foraging and life-history traits. Thus it is appropriate to relate the individual stories of those who have had significant impacts on the field as we know it today. Leaders in Animal Behavior: The Second Generation is a collection of autobiographies from 21 individuals that have been peer selected, and have provided unique and important contributions to the field in the past 25 years"--Provided by publisher.

Subject

• Geschichte 1950-2010
• Behavior, Animal
• Ethologists > Biography
• Animal behavior

Genre/Form

• Autobiography
• Biographies
• Autobiographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Understanding ourselves / Richard D. Alexander -- Motherhood, methods, and monkeys: an intertwined professional and personal life / Jeanne Altmann -- Coming together / Patrick Bateson -- My life and hard times / Jerram L. Brown -- Individuals, societies and populations / Tim Clutton-Brock -- Birds, butterflies and behavioural ecology / Nicholas B. Davies -- King Solomon's herring gull's world / Marian Stamp Dawkins -- Growing up in ethology / Richard Dawkins -- A passion for primates / Frans B.M. de Waal -- Taking my cues from nature's clues / Stephen T. Emlen -- A most unlikely animal behaviorist / Bennett G. Galef -- Watcher: the development of an evolutionary biologist / Patricia Adair Gowaty.
• Myths, monkeys, and motherhood: a compromising life / Sarah Blaffer Hrdy -- Luck, chance and choice / John R. Krebs -- My life with birds / Gordon H. Orians -- Reflections before dusk / Geoff A. Parker -- An improbable path / Michael J. Ryan -- Birds, babies, and behaving / Meredith J. West -- A brief just-so story of my life (a few of the reminiscences that are fit to print) / Mary Jane West-Eberhard -- A bird in the hand / John C. Wingfield -- Living with birds and conservation / Amotz Zahavi.

ISBN

• 9780521517584 (hbk.)
• 0521517583 (hbk.)
• 9780521741293 (pbk.)
• 0521741297 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2009038902

OCLC

• 351331776
• SCSB-10214101

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