Tinbergen's Legacy: Function and Mechanism in Behavioral Biology

Bolhuis, Johan J. (Editor)/ Verhulst, Simon (Editor)

ISBN 10: 0521874785 / ISBN 13: 9780521874786

Editore: Cambridge University Press, 2009

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• Titolo: Tinbergen's Legacy: Function and Mechanism in Behavioral Biology
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0521874785
• ISBN 13: 9780521874786
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: Brand New
• Peso: 0,55 chilogrammi

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Riassunto

A cast of leading animal biologists reflect on the enduring significance of Nobel laureate Niko Tinbergen's groundbreaking proposals for behavioural biology.

Informazioni sugli autori

Simon Verhulst is assistant professor of Behavioural Biology at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. His research interests have included ecological immunology, avian life history evolution and avian energetics, all with the aim to study the interplay between function and mechanism of behavior. In 2004 he was elected as member of 'The Young Academy', the junior section of the Dutch Royal Society. He has been an Associate Editor for the Journal of Animal Ecology since 2007.

Johan J. Bolhuis is professor of Behavioural Biology at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. His main research interests are in the behavioral, cognitive and neural mechanisms of learning, memory and development, in particular song learning in birds. He has been an editor of the leading journal Animal Behaviour and President of the Royal Dutch Zoological Society.