Simon Verhulst

Tinbergen's Legacy

Herausgeber: Bolhuis, Johan

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Produktbeschreibung

A cast of leading animal biologists reflect on the enduring significance of Nobel laureate Niko Tinbergen's groundbreaking proposals for behavioural biology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 538g
• ISBN-13: 9780521874786
• ISBN-10: 0521874785
• Artikelnr.: 25427114

Autorenporträt

Simon Verhulst is assistant professor of Behavioural Biology at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. His research interests have included ecological immunology, avian life history evolution and avian energetics, all with the aim to study the interplay between function and mechanism of behavior. In 2004 he was elected as member of 'The Young Academy', the junior section of the Dutch Royal Society. He has been an Associate Editor for the Journal of Animal Ecology since 2007.

Inhaltsangabe

1. On aims and methods of ethology N Tinbergen; 2. Tinbergen's four
questions and contemporary behavioural biology Jerry A. Hogan and Johan J.
Bolhuis; 3. Causation: the study of behavioural mechanisms Jerry A. Hogan;
4. Tinbergen's fourth question. Ontogeny: sexual and individual
differentiation David Crews and Ton Groothuis; 5. The development of
behaviour: trends since Tinbergen (1963) Jerry A. Hogan and Johan J.
Bolhuis; 6. The study of function in behavioural ecology Innes Cuthill; 7.
The evolution of behaviour, and integrating it towards a complete and
correct understanding of behavioural biology Michael J. Ryan; 8. Do ideas
about function help in the study of causation? David F. Sherry; 9. Function
and mechanism in neuroecology: looking for clues Johan J. Bolhuis.