Publisher Summary The chapter demonstrates how, with the methods of ethological
analysis, the way in which complex behavior is organized can be empirically investigated …

The purpose of this chapter is to present a general framework for studying the development
of behavior. Kruijt (1964) proposed that, in young animals, the motor components of …

Behavior systems are particular organizations of cognitive structures that are called behavior
mechanisms: perceptual, central, and motor. Thus, behavior systems are defined here in …

Discusses the general principles of the" software explanation" of behavior, defines linear,
branching, and overlapping hierarchies, and presents three functional or" neuroeconomic" …

As long as workers on instinct focused their attention on to the fact that instinctive behaviour
as a whole is often highly variable and plastic, while the only constant aspect was …

For the study of the causal mechanisms underlying behavior two oppositely directed
approaches are possible and desirable. The first of these starts from relatively simple …

This book, a summary of which as the author states, was given as the Terry lectures at Yale
University in 1948, should be required reading for everybody concerned with evolution in …

An examination of research on evolution, comparative anatomy, and behavior shows that
there is no one-to-one relationship between brain characteristics and behavior. The brain is …

This chapter is an analysis of the biological bases of behavior from a novel point of view.
Ever since the time of Descartes, scientists have taken the biological bases of behavior to be …

The abdominal nervous system of the crayfish contains six serially homologous ganglia,
each containing approximately 650 neurones. No two ganglia are identical, and the ganglia …