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Informationen zum Autor JUDITH GOODENOUGH, from the Department of Biology at the University of Massachusetts, has studied biological rhythms in creatures from planaria to finches to deer mice, and even in the green alga Chlamydomonas. BETTY MCGUIRE is from the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University. Her research focuses on parental behavior, reproduction, and ecology of small mammals, and she occasionally dabbles in work with larger domestic animals such as dogs and horses. ELIZABETH JAKOB, from the Department of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts, studies the behavior of spiders, asking questions about their learning, perception, and interactions with conspecifics and with other species. She has carried out field projects in California, Mexico, Massachusetts, and Maine. Klappentext Perspectives on Animal Behavior introduces biologists and psychologists to the scientific reasoning and methodology in the field while also addressing development and mechanisms. Rather than just focusing on evolutionary behavior, the book presents a variety of different perspectives including genetics, neurological, learning, and behavioral ecology. The third edition walks them through experimentation and data analysis, which are critical in the field. It includes classical studies that form the foundation of this field but concentrates on more current work in order to present the thinking and experiments. Biologists and psychologists will then gain a modern understanding of animal behavior. Zusammenfassung Helps readers to gain a modern understanding of animal behavior. Presents a variety of different perspectives including genetics, neurological, learning and behavioral ecology Introduces the scientific reasoning and methodology of animal behavior Addresses development and mechanisms . Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction 1 Four Questions About Animal Behavior 2 Animal Behavior as an Interdisciplinary Study 2 The Interplay of Questions: A Case Study 3 Hypothesis Testing 5 Part 1 Approaches to the Study of Animal Behavior Chapter 2 History of the Study of Animal Behavior 11 The Beginnings 11 Intellectual Continuity in the Animal World 11 Darwin's Evolutionary Framework 12 Classical Ethology 13 The Approach: Evolutionary, Comparative, Descriptive, Field-Oriented 13 Classical Ethological Concepts 15 Comparative Psychology 17 The Approach: Physiological, Developmental, Quantitative, Laboratory-Oriented 17 Early Concepts of Comparative Psychology 17 The Roots of Physiological Psychology 20 Sociobiology and Behavioral Ecology 20 More Recent Trends 22 Field Studies 22 Cellular and Molecular Bases of Behavior 22 Behavioral Biology 23 Applied Animal Behavior 23 Chapter 3 Genetic Analysis of Behavior 27 Basics of Gene Action 28 Goals of Behavioral Genetics 31 Methods of Behavioral Genetics 31 Inbreeding 31 Artificial Selection 33 Inducing Mutations and Screening for Change in Behavior 35 Finding Natural Variants and Looking for Genetic Differences 36 Hybridization 37 The Foraging Gene as an Example of Behavioral Genetics in Action 38 Candidate Genes 38 Linking a Protein to a Trait 40 Locating all the Genes Associated with a Trait 41 Microarray Analysis 41 Important Principles of Behavioral Genetics 42 One Gene Usually Affects Several Traits 42 Genes Work in Interacting Networks 44 Behavioral Variation and Genes 45 Environmental Regulation of Gene Expression 47 Dominance Relationships in Cichlid Fish 47 Song Learning in Male Songbirds 48 The Importance of Genetic Background to Behavioral Genetics 50 Networks of Genes...
