Perspectives in Ethology ― Behavioral Design

The ten papers which make up this volume cover function, natural design, and animal behavior; what constitutes an organism; constraint, adaptation, and opportunity in the design of behavioral phenotypes; the persistence of old designs for perception; constraints on the evolution of organismic structures and their consequences for adaptation of cognitive mechanisms; the dispositional properties and mutual designs of the mother-infant interaction; appetitive behavior in ethology, psychology, and behavior systems; a case study of designing behavior; the meaninglessness of foraging behavior; and the evolution of sex differences in mate choice. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.