A complex cascade of neuronal, hormonal, muscular, and metabolic events leads to the
initiation and maintenance of a behavioral act. Hormones are released to mobilize metabolic …

With the discovery of conditioned reflexes by IP Pavlov, the possibilities for experimenting,
following the example set by the classical, exact sciences, were made available to the …

Using a consistent Skinnerian perspective, Behavior Analysis and Learning: A
Biobehavioral Approach, Sixth Edition provides an advanced introduction to the principles of …

Wolves excitedly greet each other as members of the pack come together; a bumble bee
uses its long tongue to reach the nectar at the base of a foxglove flower; a mongoose swiftly …

Publisher Summary This chapter reviews the information available on the extensive
FMRFamide (Phe-Met-Arg-Pheamide)-related peptides (FaRPs) family in insects. The …

This book is woven around two themes—biology and love. It is also about how people see
love: how the lovers see each other, and how scientists, scholars, and laypeople have seen …

Who is the author of these extraordinary claims? Lima-de-Faria is a cytogeneticist known for
his Molecular Evolution and Organisation of the Chromosome (1983)(1). So there seems …

Despite several decades of criticism, dichotomous thinking about behavioral development
(the view that the behavioral phenotype can be partitioned into inherited and acquired …

Despite a key role for dense core vesicles (DCVs) in neuronal function, there are major gaps
in our understanding of DCV biogenesis. A genetic screen for Caenorhabditis elegans …

From famines and deforestation to water pollution, global warming, and the rapid rate of
extinction of plants and animals--the extent of the global damage wrought by humankind is …