Control and development of behavior ; an historical sample from the pens of ethologists /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Reading, Mass. :
Addison-Wesley Pub. Co.,
[1972]
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| Item Description: | Companion volume to the author's Function and evolution of behavior. --How does behavior develop in the individual? The critical period in imprinting of birds. On the ethology of young waterfowl, by E. Fabricius. A laboratory approach to the study of imprinting, by A. O. Ramsay and E. H. Hess. Imprinting: the interaction of learned and innate behavior II. The critical period, by J. Jaynes. Developmental age as a baseline for determination of the critical period in imprinting, by G. Gottlieb. Critical periods in behavioral development, by J. P. Scott. "Critical periods" in the development of behavior, by T. C. Schneiria and J. S. Rosenblatt. --The role of experience in parental feeding of squabs. The physiological basis of parental feeding behavior in the ring dove (Streptopelia risoria), by D. S. Lehrman. Parental feeding in ring doves (Streptopella roseogrisea): innate of learned? By E. Klinghammer and E. H. Hess. Squab-induced crop growth in ring dove foster parents, by E. W. Hansen. Hormonal initiation of parental behavior in inexperienced ring doves, by D. F. Lott and S. Comerford.--Conclusions. Ethology and the coding problem in germ cell and brain, by W. H. Thorpe. On aims and methods of ethology, by N. Tinbergen. Ethology--the zoologist approach to behaviour, by C. G. Beer. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 281 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographies. |