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    Conceptual Breakthroughs in Ethology and Animal Behavior
    Conceptual Breakthroughs in Ethology and Animal Behavior
    Conceptual Breakthroughs in Ethology and Animal Behavior
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    Conceptual Breakthroughs in Ethology and Animal Behavior

    By Michael D. Breed

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    Conceptual Breakthroughs in Ethology and Animal Behavior highlights, through concise summaries, the most important discoveries and scientific revolutions in animal behavior. These are assessed for their relative impact on the field and their significance to the forward motion of the science of animal behavior. Eighty short essays capture the moment when a new concept emerged or a publication signaled a paradigm shift. How the new understanding came about is explained, and any continuing controversy or scientific conversation on the issue is highlighted. Behavior is a rich and varied field, drawing on genetics, evolution, physiology, and ecology to inform its principles, and this book embraces the wealth of knowledge that comes from the unification of these fields around the study of animals in motion.

    The chronological organization of the essays makes this an excellent overview of the history of animal behavior, ethology, and behavioral ecology.

    The work includes such topics as Darwin’s role in shaping the study of animal behavior, the logic of animal contests, cognition, empathy in animals, and animal personalities. Succinct accounts of new revelations about behavior through scientific investigation and scrutiny reveal the fascinating story of this field. Similar to Dr. John Avise’s Contemporary Breakthroughs in Evolutionary Genetics, the work is structured into vignettes that describe the conceptual revolution and assess the impact of the conceptual change, with a score, which ranges from 1-10, providing an assessment of the impact of the new findings on contemporary science.

    • Features a lively, brisk writing style and brief entries to enable easy, enjoyable access to this essential information
    • Includes topics that cover the range of behavioral biology from mechanism to behavioral ecology
    • Can also be used as supplemental material for an undergraduate animal behavior course, or as the foundational text for an upper level or graduate discussion course in advanced animal behavior
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAcademic Press
    Release dateJan 25, 2017
    ISBN9780128095454
    Conceptual Breakthroughs in Ethology and Animal Behavior
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    Michael D. Breed

    After receiving his PhD from the University of Kansas in 1977, Dr. Breed began work as a faculty member at the University of Colorado, Boulder and taught as a Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology until his retirement in 2019. He taught courses in general biology, animal behavior, insect biology, and tropical biology. His research program focused on the behavior and ecology of social insects, and he worked on ants, bees, and wasps. He studied many aspects of social behavior, including nestmate recognition, division of labor, the genetics of colony defense, the behavior of defensive bees, and communication during colony defense. Dr. Breed was the Executive Editor of the scientific journals Animal Behaviour from 2006-2009 and Insectes Sociaux from 2014-2018.

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