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The Study of Instinct - with a new Preface (Paperback, New edition)
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The Study of Instinct - with a new Preface (Paperback, New edition)
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Behavioural ecologists and evolutionary biologists have long
recognised Professor Tinbergen's great prescience in placing the
study of animal behaviour firmly in an ecological and evolutionary
context nearly fifty years ago. This is a reprint of the 1969
edition of The Study of Instinct (originally published in 1951).
The first six chapters cover behaviour as a response to stimuli,
the neurophysiological bases of innate behaviour as then
understood, and the development of behavioural patterns in
individuals. The final two chapters are devoted to the
adaptativeness of behaviour and evolutionary aspects of behaviour.
These last two chapters have particularly withstood the test of
time. 'More than the other parts,' the author wrote in 1969, 'they
show the potential of studying animals in their natural
environment, i.e. in the environment that exerts the pressures
which each animal species has to meet...I feel very strongly that
an...intense effort ought to be made to understand the effects of
behaviour; of the ways in which it influences the survival of the
species; and that we should try much harder to understand the state
of adaptedness and the process of evolutionary adaptation. ';
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