Quo vadis, behavioural biology? : past, present, and future of an evolving science ; international symposium of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Berlin, April 30 to May 4, 2009 ; with 2 tables

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Quo vadis, behavioural biology? : past, present, and future of an evolving science ; international symposium of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Berlin, April 30 to May 4, 2009 ; with 2 tables / ed.: Andreas Wessel, Randolf Menzel, Günter Tembrock

Dades bibliogràfiques
Altres autors:	Wessel, Andreas <1973-> (Editor), Menzel, Randolf (Editor), Tembrock, Günter (Editor), Menzel, Randolf; Wessel, Andreas (Vorwort)
Format:	Llibre
Idioma:	English
Publicat:	Stuttgart : Wiss. Verl.-Ges., 2013
Col·lecció:	Nova acta Leopoldina / Neue Folge 111 = 380
Matèries:	Verhaltensforschung Kongress / Berlin <2009>
Continguts/components:	21 registres
Accés en línia:	Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Change of concepts of behaviour over the last 60 years at Humboldt University Berlin

2. The story of power in a primitive wasp society

3. On a general theory concerning the special mechanism of signal selection and its interaction with the selection of all other traits

4. Sources of productive questions : experiences of a primatologist

5. Numerical abilities of grey parrots : comparisons with apes and children

6. The concepts of 'Operant conditioning' and 'Conditioned action' in past and future

7. Developmental approaches to behavioural biology

8. The origins of human and avian auditory-motor entrainment

9. Selectivity in stone tool use by wild bearded capuchin monkeys : field observations and experimental evidence

10. Programmed behaviour, learning, and knowing : caterpillars to ravens

11. Communication: the quest for understanding behavioural complexity

12. Song complexity in Bengalese finches : sexual selection, domestication, and brain plasticity

13. Ethologyin space and time - Berlin in the light

14. From ethology to biodiversity : case studies of wildlife conservation

15. Body size, vocal fold length, and fundamental frequency : implications for mammal vocal communication

16. From ethology to human ethology : cognitive patterns in the culture of the Eipo, highlands of West-New Guinea

17. The evolution of surface and deep structure in primate communication

18. The quest for understanding social complexity

19. Human uniqueness : constructions of ourselves and our sibling species: 'Pan troglodytes' and 'Pan paniscus'

20. Neuroethology : do hibernating lemurs sleep?

21. Structure of navigational memory in an insect, the honeybee