Abstract Reviews the book, Animal Behavior: An Evolutionary Approach. 3rd ed by John
Alcock (1984). The book contains fifteen chapters. Alcock begins with a chapter on the …

Students of ethology have always talked about evolution, but until recently they haven't done
very much about it. However, with the realization that natural selection operates upon all …

Ecology and genetics began hybridizing almost half a century ago to form the field of
ecological genetics, which has backcrossed with ecology to yield the recent crop of …

It is our goal in this text to use evolutionary principles as a unifying theme for exposing
students to a number of approaches to the field of animal behavior and to demonstrate that …

Presents a comprehensive, integrated comparison of behavior patterns of animals, providing
a balance between a consideration of the natural history of behavior and the mechanisms …

European ethologists emphasized that animal behavior is a biological phenomenon, and as
such a product of evolution. The emphasis of the North American psychologists on learning …

Phylogenetics has had an interesting history in studies of animal behavior (Burghardt &
Gittleman 1990; Brooks & McLennan 1991). For some of the early ethologists with …

A detailed textbook on ethology. Reference for all areas of animal behavior. Harvard Book
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This book is intended for use with undergraduates taking their first course in the area of
comparative psychology and animal behavior. It is written by a comparative psychologist …