The Study Of Instinct by Nikolaas Tinbergen

The Study Of Instinct by Nikolaas Tinbergen

Original Title: The Study Of Instinct ISBN: 0198577222

ISBN13: 9780198577225 Autor: Nikolaas Tinbergen Rating: 4.6 of 5 stars (4246) counts Original Format: Paperback, 228 pages Download Format: PDF, FB2, MOBI, MP3. Published: September 1st 1990 / by Clarendon Press / (first published 1951) Language: English Genre(s): Science- 2 users

Description: 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.

About Author: Other Editions:

- The Study of Instinct (Hardcover)

- Lo studio dell’istinto (Paperback)

- Study of Instinct (Oxford Reprints)

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Aug 12, 2008 Laura Grabowski Rated it: it was amazing Shelves: non-fiction-science This is an old book, but more than worth the effort. It is an introduction to the basic ideas of ethology, the study of animal behavior, written by one of the founders of that field. I'm sure that the book shows its age in some respects, but it is captivating, nonetheless. 2 likes