9.20 Animal Behavior, Fall 2005
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Author(s)
Schneider, Gerald E.
Alternative Title
Animal Behavior
Date Issued
December 2005
Abstract
Most of the major categories of adaptive behavior can be seen in all animals. This course begins with the evolution of behavior, the driver of nervous system evolution, reviewed using concepts developed in ethology, sociobiology, other comparative studies, and in studies of brain evolution. The roles of various types of plasticity are considered, as well as foraging and feeding, defensive and aggressive behavior, courtship and reproduction, migration and navigation, social activities and communication, with contributions of inherited patterns and cognitive abilities. Both field and laboratory based studies are reviewed; and finally, human behavior is considered within the context of primate studies.
Subjects
animal behavior
ethology
behavioral organization
human ethology
habitat
sociobiology
mammals
behavioral ecology
naturalists
behavioral evolution
habitat selection
social organization
sexuality
mating
reproduction
animal learning
antipredatory behavior
feeding
foraging
adaptive behavior
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
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