Conceptual Breakthroughs in Ethology and Animal Behavior provides concise summaries of the most important conceptual breakthroughs in animal behavior. These breakthroughs are assessed for their relative impact on the field and their significance to the forward motion of the science of animal behavior. Approximately 80 individual entries, each 2-3 pages in length, consist of a title, a one-sentence summary statement, a numerical ranking of the impact of the discovery/principle on our understanding of behavior, an essay on the paradigm shift, how the new understanding came about, and any continuing controversy or scientific conversation on the issue. The work includes topics like Only birds and mammals sleep, Only humans have color vision, Animals don't self-medicate, Males don't care about parenting, and Animals can't count, providing a concise account of early concepts, myths, and dogmas in the field that have proven to be untrue through scientific investigation and scrutiny. Similar to Dr. John Avise's book, Contemporary Breakthroughs in Evolutionary Genetics, the work is structured into vignettes that first present the old way of understanding a problem or issue, then describe the conceptual revolution, and finally assess the impact of the conceptual change, with a p-score, which ranges from 1-10, providing an assessment of the impact of the new findings on contemporary science. Features a lively, brisk writing style and brief entries to enable easy and enjoyable access to this important informationIncludes topics that cover the range of behavioral biology, from mechanism to behavioral ecologyIdeal as supplemental material for an undergraduate animal behavior course or as the foundational textbook for an upper level or graduate discussion course in advanced animal behavior INDICE: 1. 50000 years before present The Dawn of Human Evolution 2. 12000 years before present Domestication 3. 1623 Social Behavior 4. 1700s Classifying Life 5. 1729 Biological Clocks 6. 1800s Birds in Their Natural Setting 7. 1800s The Great Explorers 8. 1859 Darwin and Behavior 9. 1859 Darwin and Social Insects 10. 1882 George Romanes and the Birth of Comparative Psychology 11. 1894 Morgan's Canon 12. 1914 Sensory Physiology and Behavior 13. 1938 Skinner and Learning 14. 1940 Orientation 15. 1941 Bat Echolocation 16. 1947 The Evolution of Clutch Size 17. 1948 Cognitive Maps 18. 1948 Hormones and Behavior 19. 1948 Information Theory 20. 1953 The Chasm Between Ethology and Comparative Psychology 21. 1954 Life History Phenomena 22. 1954 1954 Zeitgebers (Time-Givers) for Biological Clocks 23. 1956 Coolidge Effect 24. 1957 Psychophysical Laws 25. 1960 Motivation and Drive 26. 1963 The Four Questions 27. 1964 Dopamine and Reward Reinforcement 28. 1964 Inclusive Fitness and the Evolution of Altruism 29. 1965 Harry Harlow and Social Isolation in Monkeys 30. 1967 Island Biogeography 31. 1968 Tool Use 32. 1969 Territoriality and Habitat Choice 33. 1970 Sperm Competition 34. 1971 Behavioral Genetics 35. 1971 Reciprocal Altruism 36. 1971 Selfish Herds 37. 1973 Episodic Memory 38. 1973 Game Theory 39. 1973 Many Eyes Hypothesis 40. 1973 The Red Queen 41. 1973 Animal Conflict 42. 1974 Caenorhabditis elegans Behavioral Genetics 43. 1974 Standardizing Behavioral Observation Methods 44. 1974 Parent-Offspring conflict 45. 1975 Group Selection 46. 1975 Sociobiology 47. 1975 The Handicap Principle 48. 1976 Marginal Value Theorem 49. 1977 Self Medication 50. 1977 The Evolution of Mating Systems 51. 1978 Animal Models for Depression 52. 1978 Theory of Mind 53. 1980 Dispersal 54. 1980 Semantic Communication 55. 1980 The Risk Paradigm 56. 1981 Prisoner's Dilemma 57. 1981 Producers and Scroungers 58. 1982 The Hamilton-Zuk Hypothesis 59. 1982 The Hippocampus and Navigation 60. 1983 Reproductive Skew 61. 1985 An Animal Model for Anxiety 62. 1988 Brood Parasitism 63. 1990 Fear 64. 1990 The Challenge Hypothesis 65. 1991 Pain in Animals 66. 1991 Receiver Psychology 67. 1994 Ecosystem Engineers 68. 1992 Working Memory 69. 1996 Conservation Behavior 70. 1996 The Molecular Basis of Learning 71. 1998 Self organization of Social Systems 72. 1998 Gaze Following 73. 1999 Multimodal Communication 74. 2000 Emotion and the Brain 75. 2000 Social Amoebas and Their Genomes 76. 2002 Social Networks 77. 2004 Behavioral Syndromes - Personality in Animals 78. 2004 Maternal Epigenetics 79. 2004 Public and Private Information 80. 2014 Keystone Individuals
- ISBN: 978-0-12-809265-1
- Editorial: Academic Press
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 316
- Fecha Publicación: 01/02/2017
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés