Tinbergen's Legacy (eBook, PDF)

Function and Mechanism in Behavioral Biology
Redaktion: Bolhuis, Johan

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Nobel laureate Niko Tinbergen laid the foundations for the scientific study of animal behaviour with his work on causation, development, function and evolution. In this book, an international cast of leading animal biologists reflect on the enduring significance of Tinbergen's groundbreaking proposals for modern behavioural biology. It includes a reprint of Tinbergen's original article on the famous 'four whys' and a contemporary introduction, after which each of the four questions are discussed in the light of contemporary evidence. There is also a discussion of the wider significance of recent trends in evolutionary psychology and neuroecology to integrate the 'four whys'. With a foreword by one of Tinbergen's most prominent pupils, Aubrey Manning, this wide-ranging book demonstrates that Tinbergen's views on animal behaviour are crucial for modern behavioural biology. It will appeal to graduate students and researchers in animal behaviour, behavioural ecology and evolutionary biology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511460562
• Artikelnr.: 38216456

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.