Research Catalog

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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Details

Additional Authors

• Greenberg, Gary.
• Tobach, Ethel, 1921-2015.

Description

xii, 291 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

A presentation of research in insect behavior focusing on the theoretical writing and experiments of researcher T.C. Scheirla with an emphasis on the significance of comparative psychology on evolutionary biology. The 12 essays consider topics in the comparative study of behavioral evolution and development, field research into the social organization of ants, and social parasitism in ants. Two of the papers are first translations from Russian. Includes a species index.

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 ; vol. 2.

Subject

• Insects > Behavior
• Insect societies
• Animal behavior
• Insects
• Behavior, Animal
• Insecta
• Insecta (class)
• Insects
• Animal behavior
• Insect societies
• Insects > Behavior
• Insekten
• Verhalten
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Verhaltensforschung

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 / Rudolf 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 -- Adaptations 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, Jerry Hirsch -- Pseudostinging behavior of the harvester ant Messor sanctus forel as a response to novelty / Ewa J. Godzińska, Anna Szczuka, Julita Korczyńska.

ISBN

• 0815321961
• 9780815321965

LCCN

96012257

OCLC

• ocm34355660
• 34355660
• SCSB-2114753

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library