Principles of Animal Behavior, Second Edition, builds on the first edition's reputation as a contemporary and forward-looking text with several distinct features: balanced coverage of proximate and ultimate factors, bolstered by a significant expansion of proximate coverage in the new edition thorough coverage of phylogeny and animal behavior has been added to the book's int...
Principles of Animal Behavior, Second Edition, builds on the first edition's reputation as a contemporary and forward-looking text with several distinct features: balanced coverage of proximate and ultimate factors, bolstered by a significant expansion of proximate coverage in the new edition thorough coverage of phylogeny and animal behavior has been added to the book's integrated view of natural selection, learning, and cultural transmission a focus on current research and the process of science through interviews with prominent researchers at the end of every chapter.
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Lee Alan Dugatkin is a professor and Distinguished University Scholar in the Department of Biology at the University of Louisville. His main area of research is the evolution of social behavior. He is currently studying the evolution of cooperation, aggression, antibiotic resistance, risk-taking behavior, and the interaction between genetic and cultural evolution. Dr. Dugatkin ...
Lee Alan Dugatkin is a professor and Distinguished University Scholar in the Department of Biology at the University of Louisville. His main area of research is the evolution of social behavior. He is currently studying the evolution of cooperation, aggression, antibiotic resistance, risk-taking behavior, and the interaction between genetic and cultural evolution. Dr. Dugatkin is the author of over 145 articles on evolution and behavior in journals such as Nature and The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and several trade monographs on the evolution of cooperation and the history of science. He is also the author of Principles of Animal Behavior, Second Edition.
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1. Take a few hours one weekend day and focus on writing down all the behavioral observations you're made, as well as any, even indirect, behavioral hypotheses you have constructed. Think about your interaction with both humans and nonhumans. How has your very brief introduction into ethology reshaped the way you observe behavior?
2. Why do we need a science of ethology? What insights does this discipline provide both the scientist and the layperson?
3.Imagine that you are out in a forest, and you observe that squirrels there appear to cache their food only in the vicinity of certain species of plants. Construct a hypothesis for how this behavior may have been the result of (a) natural selection (b) individual learning (c) social learning.
4. Why do you suppose that mathematical theori... (查看原文)
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