Taking note of Tinbergen, or: the promise of a biology of behaviour
2013 | journal article
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Taking note of Tinbergen, or: the promise of a biology of behaviour
Barrett, L.; Blumstein, D. T.; Clutton-Brock, T. H. & Kappeler, P. (2013)
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 368(1618) art. 20120352. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2012.0352
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- Authors
- Barrett, Louise; Blumstein, Daniel T.; Clutton-Brock, Timothy H.; Kappeler, Peter
- Abstract
- In this concluding paper, we revisit Tinbergen's 1963 article and assess its impact on the field of behavioural research in general, and the papers in this volume in particular. We show how Tinbergen's insistence that greater attention should be paid to studies of \‘survival value\’ has yielded immense returns over the past 50 years, allowing an integrative biology of behaviour to emerge and thrive, and that his addition of ontogeny to the \‘major problems of biology\’ was both insightful and prescient.
- Issue Date
- 2013
- Journal
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
- ISSN
- 0962-8436
- Language
- English
