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 …

The authors of this chapter were trained in both psychology and biology; we both hold joint
appointments in psychology and biology departments, and we both have used laboratory …

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 …

Animal behaviour: Psychobiology, ethology, and evolution, 2nd ed. Animal behaviour:
Psychobiology, ethology, and evolution, 2nd ed. Citation McFarland, D. (1993). Animal behaviour …

Beginning with Darwin's work in the 1870s, Foundations of Animal Behavior selects the most
important works from the discipline's first hundred years—forty-four classic papers—and …

Understanding behavior has been a crucial aim for philosophers and scientists since
Aristotle and, particularly, Charles Darwin. In the first half of the 20th century, a coherent …

As a synthetic discipline, animal behavior lives by the wits, good will, and agreement of the
scientists creating it. Current interest in animals is high, and powerful new techniques are …

In the years leading up to the Second World War the ethologists Konrad Lorenz and
Nikolaas Tinbergen, created the tradition of rigorous, Darwinian research on animal …

The field of animal cognition is strongly rooted in the philosophy of mind and in the theory of
evolution. Despite these strong roots, work during the most famous and active period in the …

THAT ZOOLOGISTS pioneered the observational study of animal behavior while
psychologists developed the laboratory approach is a generally held assumption which I …