Prologue -- The structure of this book -- Six paradigms -- 1. Introduction -- Some premises -- Some history -- Evolution and modification of behavior -- Evolution of ontogeny in the human animal -- ...
Scientists have long wondered whether evolution would follow the same path if history had a chance for a “do-over.” New research suggests that it does, when it comes to the brain and its regulation of ...
Animals able to change behaviors but slow to evolve might fare better than previously thought amid climate change. In response to a warmer climate, ground squirrels and marmots in California are ...
A colleague of mine who also studies evolution and behavior once told me that when a passenger next to him on a plane asks, "So, what do you do?" his reply is "Oh, me? I'm an organic chemist." End of ...
A. The formulations of Lorenz and Tinbergen -- The comparative method in studying innate behaviour patterns / K.Z. Lorenz -- B. Some criticisms of the views of Lorenz and Tinbergen -- Is modern ...
S tanding before the Royal Society of Medicine in London on June 22, 1972, the ecologist-turned-psychologist John Bumpass Calhoun, director of the Laboratory of Brain Evolution and Behavior at the ...