Tinbergen's Legacy: Function and Mechanism in Behavioral Biology

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Contributors......Page 9
Foreword: Four decades on from the “four questions”......Page 11
Preface......Page 23
On aims and methods of Ethology......Page 27
Observation and Description......Page 28
Causation......Page 30
Survival value......Page 34
Ontogeny......Page 40
Evolution......Page 44
Conclusion......Page 47
Zusammenfassung......Page 48
References......Page 49
Four questions on behavior......Page 51
Tinbergen and the rise of ethology......Page 52
The concept of cause......Page 53
The concept of function......Page 54
The concept of proximate and ultimate causes......Page 55
The relation of cause and function......Page 56
The problem of levels of analysis......Page 57
The question of evolution......Page 58
Summary and conclusions......Page 59
Conception of causation......Page 61
Studies of causation......Page 64
Animal cognition......Page 66
Applied ethology......Page 69
Neural network models......Page 72
Traditional models......Page 74
Summary and conclusions......Page 78
Acknowledgments......Page 79
4 Tinbergen’s fourth question, ontogeny: sexual and individual differentiation......Page 80
Temperature dependent sex determination in the leopard gecko as a model......Page 83
Temperature-dependent sex determination and the development of individual differences......Page 85
A unitary neuroanatomical framework......Page 87
Sibling effects in mammalian species......Page 90
Maternal hormonal condition during pregnancy......Page 93
Effects of maternal androgens: the avian model......Page 94
(i) Within clutch variation......Page 95
(ii) Between-clutch variation......Page 99
(iii) Long-lasting effects......Page 100
Social experience in the leopard gecko......Page 101
Social experience in avian species......Page 103
Summary and Conclusions......Page 106
5 The development of behavior: trends since Tinbergen (1963)......Page 108
The nature/nurture debate......Page 109
Filial imprinting: sensitive periods, irreversibility, and predis positions......Page 110
Sexual imprinting: representations and stability......Page 114
Bird song learning......Page 117
Development of behavior systems......Page 120
Human language......Page 123
Attachment behavior......Page 127
Trends in the study of development......Page 128
Summary and conclusions......Page 132
Tinbergen and function......Page 133
Multiple functions......Page 135
Philosophy and function......Page 137
Behavioral ecology and function......Page 139
Observational studies......Page 141
Experimental manipulation......Page 143
Modeling......Page 144
The comparative method......Page 146
Behavioral ecology past, present and future......Page 148
Acknowledgments......Page 151
The virtues of integration......Page 153
Evolution of behavior, then and now......Page 154
Behavior......Page 157
Neurobiology......Page 159
Evolution......Page 162
Summary......Page 166
Sexual communication in túngara frog: species recognition and historical contingency......Page 167
Behavior......Page 168
Artificial neural networks......Page 170
Summary and conclusions......Page 172
8 Do ideas about function help in the study of causation?......Page 173
The major histocompatibility complex......Page 176
Memory in food-storing birds......Page 179
Hippocampal size......Page 180
Hippocampal neurogenesis......Page 181
Auditory localization in barn owls......Page 183
Orientation to the magnetic field of the Earth......Page 184
The synthesis of cause and function......Page 186
Acknowledgments......Page 187
9 Function and mechanism in neuroecology: looking for clues......Page 189
Some clues from the maestro......Page 191
Integrating function and mechanism......Page 192
A critique of functional approaches to cognitive neurobiology......Page 193
(i) Localization......Page 194
(ii) Failure of behavioral predictions......Page 196
(iii) Correlations and causal links......Page 197
Neuroecology is not neuroethology......Page 198
The concept of modularity......Page 199
Are modules domain-specific?......Page 200
Modularity of the brain?......Page 201
Neuroecology and scientific progress......Page 203
Recent neuroecological evidence......Page 204
Bird song memory; the song system and beyond......Page 205
Birdsong: One brain for all seasons......Page 207
Correlations between hippocampus volume and food storing category......Page 209
Spatial memory in food-storing and non-storing birds......Page 213
Seasonal variation in brain parameters in food storing birds and mammals......Page 214
Reflections of the debate in recent neuroecological publications......Page 218
Looking for clues......Page 219
Summary and conclusions......Page 221
Acknowledgments......Page 222
References......Page 223
Index......Page 254