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Perspectives in Ethology - Volume 4 Advantages of Diversity (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1981)
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Perspectives in Ethology - Volume 4 Advantages of Diversity (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1981)
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One of the attractive features of the great classical ethologists
was their readiness to ask different kinds of questions about
behavior - and to do so without muddling the answers. Niko
Tinbergen, for instance, was interested in the evolution of
behavior. But he also had interests in the present-day sur vival
value of a behavior pattern and in the mechanisms that control it
from moment to moment. Broad as his interests were, he clearly
separated out the problems and recognized that questions about the
history, function, control, and development of behavior require
distinct approaches - even though the answers to one type of
question may aid in finding answers to another. The open-minded
(and clear-headed) style of ethologists like Tinbergen was based on
a recognition that there are diverse ways of usefully con ducting
research on behavior. This consciousness has been partially sub
merged in recent years by new waves of narrowly focused enthusiasm.
For instance, the study of the behavior of whole animals without
recourse to lower levels of analysis, and the treatment of
sociobiological theories as ex planation for how individuals
develop, has meant that the relatively fragile plants of
neuroethology and behavioral ontogeny have almost disappeared under
the flood."
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