The Study of Instinct: With the 1969 Introduction and a New Preface by the Author

ISBN-13: 9780198577225 / Miękka / 1989 / 250 str.

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Opis

Behavioural ecologists and evolutionary biologists have long recognised Professor Tinbergen's great prescience in placing the study of animal behaviour firmly in an ecological and evolutionary context nearly fifty years ago. This is a reprint of the 1969 edition of The Study of Instinct (originally published in 1951). The first six chapters cover behaviour as a response to stimuli, the neurophysiological bases of innate behaviour as then understood, and the development of behavioural patterns in individuals. The final two chapters are devoted to the adaptativeness of behaviour and evolutionary aspects of behaviour.

Recenzje

'Tinbergen shared the Nobel Prize in 1973 for his marvellous studies of animal behaviour and this reappearance of his 1951 classic reminds one what an acute observer he was.' David Cohen, British Book News

Spis treści

Ethology: the objective study of behaviour; Behaviour as a reaction to external stimuli; The internal factors responsible for the 'spontaneity' of behaviour; Further considerations of the external stimuli; An attempt at synthesis; The development of behaviour in the individual; The adaptiveness of behaviour; The evolution of behaviour.