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Celebrating 50 Years of Animal Behaviour
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Edited By
Jeffrey Lucas, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, U.S.A.
Leigh Simmons, University of Western Australia, Crawley
Description
Recently, the 50th anniversary of the publication of Animal Behaviour has passed. To mark the occasion, a group of prominent behaviourists
have written essays relevant to their fields. These essays provide a glimpse of the study of behaviour looking in all directions. History
and future aside, it is imperative to broadcast this information from the perspective of the behaviourists who have helped shape both
the past and the future. It is important for any field to be both retrospective and prospective: where have we been, where are we going,
where are we now? These essays provide a unique personal reflection on the history of animal behaviour from John Alcock, Stuart and
Jeanne Altmann, Steve Arnold, Geoff Parker, and Felicity Huntingford. Six topics are reflected on and include: The History of Animal
Behavioural Research, Proximate Mechanisms, Development, Adaptation, and Animal Welfare.
Audience
Animal behaviourists, behavioural ecologists, developmental biologists, behavioural endocrinologists
behavioural neurobiologists, ecologists
Contents
1) Introduction
1. Jeffrey R. Lucas & Leigh W. Simmons. 50 years of Animal Behaviour.
2) The history of behavioural research
2. John
Alcock. A textbook history of animal behaviour.
3. Geoff Parker. Behavioural Ecology: natural history as science
4. Stuart A. Altmann & Jeanne Altmann. The transformation of behaviour field studies.
5. Stevan J. Arnold. Too much natural history, or too little?
6. Felicity
A. Huntingford. A history of Animal Behaviour by a partial, ignorant and prejudiced ethologist.
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3) Proximate mechanisms
7. Gene Robinson.
Genes and social behaviour.
8. John Wingfield. Control of behavioural strategies for capricious environments.
9. Andrew I. Barnes & Linda
Partridge. Costing reproduction.
4) Development
10. Patrick Bateson. The promise of behavioural biology.
11. Bennett G. Galef. Making
a decision by integrating socially and individually acquired information.
12. Judy Stamps. Behavioural processes affecting development:
Tinbergen's fourth question comes of age.
13. Meredith J. West, Andrew P. King, & David J. White. The case for developmental ecology.
5) Adaptation
14. Patricia Adair Gowaty. Beyond extra-pair paternity: individual constraints, fitness components, and social mating
systems
15. Malte Andersson. Interplay between theory and empiricism in sexual selection.
16. Amotz Zahavi. Indirect selection and individual
selection in sociobiology: my personal views on theories of social behaviour.
17. Michael Greenfield. Honesty and deception in animal
signals.
18. P. J. B. Slater. Fifty years of bird song research: a case study in animal behaviour.
19. Roswitha Wiltschko & Wolfgang
Wiltschko. Avian navigation: from historical to modern concepts.
6) Animal Welfare
20. Marian Dawkins. Behaviour and animal welfare.
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Paperback, 384 pages, publication date: NOV-2005
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-369499-7
ISBN-10: 0-12-369499-X
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS
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