The Study of Instinct - with a new Preface (Paperback, New edition)

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. ';

General

Imprint:	Clarendon Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 1989
Authors:	Nikolaas Tinbergen (late Emeritus Professor of Animal Behaviour)
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	250
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-857722-5
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Neurosciences Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Zoology & animal sciences > Animal behaviour Promotions
LSN:	0-19-857722-2
Barcode:	9780198577225

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