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OverviewThis textbook is designed for all undergraduate students headed for medical, dental, veterinary, and nursing school, as well as biology majors. Classical and modern ethology is discussed in addition to sociobiology and, finally, the physiology of different behavioral systems. Attention is paid to the behavior of primates, including humans, and in some cases mention is made of human clinical syndromes. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Doris Zumpe , Richard P. MichaelPublisher: Springer Science+Business Media Imprint: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers Edition: 2001 ed. Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 2.020kg ISBN: 9780306465772ISBN 10: 0306465779 Pages: 346 Publication Date: 31 August 2001 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1 The Study of Behavior: History.- A Brief History.- Some Theory and Terminology.- Warnings, Fallacies, and Pitfalls.- 2 Some Ethological Concepts.- Evolutionary Basis of Behavior.- Ethology’s Objectives.- General Methods.- Fixed Action Patterns (FAPs).- Conflict Behaviors.- Vacuum Activity.- Ritualization and Displays.- 3 Some More Ethological Concepts.- Sign Stimuli, Releasers, and Innate Releasing Mechanisms.- Programmed Learning and Imprinting.- Drive or Motivation.- 4 Assessment of Hereditary Influences.- Indirect Methods.- Direct Methods.- 5 Behavioral Endocrinology: Gonadal Hormones.- Synthesis and Major Sites of Production.- Transport.- Mechanisms of Action.- Organizational Effects During Development.- Activational Effects in Adults.- 6 Behavioral Endocrinology: Stress and Adrenal Hormones.- Definition.- Types of Stress.- The Stress Responses of the Body.- The Adrenal Medulla and Sympathetic Arousal.- The Hypothalamus and the Adrenal Cortex.- Corticosteroid Production.- Corticosteroid Metabolism.- Habituation to Stress.- Functions of Stress.- Psychosomatic Medicine.- Two Psychiatric Syndromes.- 7 Biological Rhythms.- Functions of Biological Rhythms.- Circadian Rhythms (23–26 Hours).- Circatidal Rhythms (12.4 Hours).- Circalunar Rhythms (14.8 Days).- Monthly Rhythms (29.5 Days).- Circannual Rhythms (365 Days).- Rhythms in Human Disease.- 8 Orientation and Navigation.- Orienting Responses.- Navigation.- Migration.- 9 Feeding, Foraging, and Predation.- Feeding Behavior.- Foraging.- Predatory Techniques and Antipredator Defense.- 10 Social Behavior.- Social Systems.- Benefits of Sociality.- Improved Care of Offspring.- Costs of Sociality.- Philopatry and Dispersal.- Evolution of Cooperative Behavior.- Mechanisms of Kin Recognition.- Environmental and CulturalInfluences in Primates.- 11 Communication.- Definition.- Functions of Communication.- “Honesty” and “Deception” in Communication.- Communicatory Signals.- Sensory Channels of Communication.- 12 Agonistic Behavior.- Interspecific Agonism.- Intraspecific Agonism.- Comparisons between Interspecific and Intraspecific Agonism.- Human Aggression.- 13 Sexual Selection.- Asexual and Sexual Reproduction.- Sex Determination.- Sex Ratio (SR).- Theoretical Considerations.- Intrasexual Selection.- Intersexual (Epigamic) Selection.- 14 Courtship and Mating.- Factors Important for the Onset of Courtship and Mating.- Functions of Courtship.- Mating Categories.- Bisexual Behavior.- 15 Parental Behavior and Mating Systems.- Models of the Parent—Offspring Relationship.- Evolution of Parental Care.- Mating Systems.- 16 Nonhuman Primates.- Ethology.- Sociobiology.- Language in Apes.- 17 Humans.- Human Ethology.- Human Sociobiology.- References.- Author Index.ReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |