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Conceptual Breakthroughs in Ethology and Animal Behavior
- 1st Edition - January 25, 2017
- Author: Michael D. Breed
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 9 2 6 5 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 9 5 4 5 - 4
Conceptual Breakthroughs in Ethology and Animal Behavior highlights, through concise summaries, the most important discoveries and scientific revolutions in animal behavior.… Read more
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Request a sales quoteConceptual Breakthroughs in Ethology and Animal Behavior highlights, through concise summaries, the most important discoveries and scientific revolutions in animal behavior. These are assessed for their relative impact on the field and their significance to the forward motion of the science of animal behavior. Eighty short essays capture the moment when a new concept emerged or a publication signaled a paradigm shift. How the new understanding came about is explained, and any continuing controversy or scientific conversation on the issue is highlighted. Behavior is a rich and varied field, drawing on genetics, evolution, physiology, and ecology to inform its principles, and this book embraces the wealth of knowledge that comes from the unification of these fields around the study of animals in motion.
The chronological organization of the essays makes this an excellent overview of the history of animal behavior, ethology, and behavioral ecology.
The work includes such topics as Darwin’s role in shaping the study of animal behavior, the logic of animal contests, cognition, empathy in animals, and animal personalities. Succinct accounts of new revelations about behavior through scientific investigation and scrutiny reveal the fascinating story of this field. Similar to Dr. John Avise’s Contemporary Breakthroughs in Evolutionary Genetics, the work is structured into vignettes that describe the conceptual revolution and assess the impact of the conceptual change, with a score, which ranges from 1-10, providing an assessment of the impact of the new findings on contemporary science.
- Features a lively, brisk writing style and brief entries to enable easy, enjoyable access to this essential information
- Includes topics that cover the range of behavioral biology from mechanism to behavioral ecology
- Can also be used as supplemental material for an undergraduate animal behavior course, or as the foundational text for an upper level or graduate discussion course in advanced animal behavior
Advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and academics/ researchers in animal behavior, ethology, evolutionary biology, and behavioral ecology
Chapter 1. 50,000 Years Before Present: The Dawn of Human Evolution
- Abstract
- The Concept
- The Explanation
- Impact: 10
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Chapter 2. 12,000 Years Before Present: Domestication
- Abstract
- The Concept
- The Explanation
- Impact: 8
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Chapter 3. 1623 Social Behavior
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- The Concept
- The Explanation
- Impact: 3
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Chapter 4. 1700s Classifying Life
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- The Concept
- The Explanation
- Impact: 7
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Chapter 5. 1729 Biological Clocks
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- The Concept
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- Impact: 3
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Chapter 6. 1800s Birds in Their Natural Setting
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- The Concept
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- Impact: 6
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Chapter 7. 1800s The Great Explorers
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- Impact: 8
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Chapter 8. 1859 Darwin and Behavior
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- Impact: 10
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Chapter 9. 1859 Darwin and Social Insects
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- Impact: 4
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Chapter 10. 1882 George Romanes and the Birth of Comparative Psychology
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- Impact: 8
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Chapter 11. 1894 Morgan’s Canon
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- Impact: 8
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Chapter 12. 1914 Sensory Physiology and Behavior
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- Impact: 6
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Chapter 13. 1938 Skinner and Learning
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- Impact: 9
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Chapter 14. 1940 Orientation
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Chapter 15. 1941 Bat Echolocation
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- The Concept
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- Impact: 5
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Chapter 16. 1947 The Evolution of Clutch Size
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- Impact: 6
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Chapter 17. 1948 Cognitive Maps
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- Impact: 7
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Chapter 18. 1948 Hormones and Behavior
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- Impact: 8
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Chapter 19. 1948 Information Theory
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- Impact: 4
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Chapter 20. 1953 The Chasm Between Ethology and Comparative Psychology
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- The Concept
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- Impact: 9
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Chapter 21. 1954 Life History Phenomena
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- Impact: 5
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Chapter 22. 1954 Zeitgebers (Time-Givers) for Biological Clocks
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- Impact: 3
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Chapter 23. 1956 The Coolidge Effect
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- Impact: 2
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Chapter 24. 1957 Psychophysical Laws
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- Impact: 4
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Chapter 25. 1960 Motivation and Drive
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- Impact: 3
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Chapter 26. 1963 The Four Questions
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- Impact: 10
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Chapter 27. 1964 Dopamine and Reward Reinforcement
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- Impact: 7
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Chapter 28. 1964 Inclusive Fitness and the Evolution of Altruism
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- Impact: 10
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Chapter 29. 1965 Harry Harlow and Social Isolation in Monkeys
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- Impact: 3
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Chapter 30. 1967 Island Biogeography
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- Impact: 6
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Chapter 31. 1968 Tool Use
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- Impact: 4
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Chapter 32. 1969 Territoriality and Habitat Choice
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- Impact: 3
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Chapter 33. 1970 Sperm Competition
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- The Concept
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- Impact: 5
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Chapter 34. 1971 Behavioral Genetics
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- The Concept
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- Impact: 9
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Chapter 35. 1971 Reciprocal Altruism
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- Impact: 3
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Chapter 36. 1971 Selfish Herds
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- The Concept
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- Impact: 7
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Chapter 37. 1973 Episodic Memory
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- The Concept
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- Impact: 6
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Chapter 38. 1973 Game Theory
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- The Concept
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- Impact: 5
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Chapter 39. 1973 The Many Eyes Hypothesis
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- Impact: 2
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Chapter 40. 1973 The Red Queen
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- Impact: 7
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Chapter 41. 1973 Animal Conflict
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- The Concept
- The Explanation
- Impact: 3
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Chapter 42. 1974 Caenorhabditis elegans Behavioral Genetics
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- The Explanation
- Impact: 9
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Chapter 43. 1974 Standardizing Behavioral Observation Methods
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- Impact: 9
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Chapter 44. 1974 Parent–Offspring Conflict
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- Impact: 9
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Chapter 45. 1975 Group Selection
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- Impact: 2
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Chapter 46. 1975 Sociobiology
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- Impact: 3
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Chapter 47. 1975 The Handicap Principle
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- Impact: 3
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Chapter 48. 1976 Marginal Value Theorem
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- Impact: 5
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Chapter 49. 1977 Self-medication
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- Impact: 4
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Chapter 50. 1977 The Evolution of Mating Systems
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- Impact: 9
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Chapter 51. 1978 Animal Models for Depression
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- Impact: 7
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Chapter 52. 1978 Theory of Mind
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- Impact: 4
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Chapter 53. 1980 Dispersal
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- Impact: 5
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Chapter 54. 1980 Semantic Communication
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- Impact: 2
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Chapter 55. 1980 The Risk Paradigm
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- Impact: 2
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Chapter 56. 1981 Prisoner’s Dilemma
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- Impact: 5
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Chapter 57. 1981 Producers and Scroungers
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- Impact: 2
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Chapter 58. 1982 The Hamilton–Zuk Hypothesis
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- The Concept
- The Explanation
- Impact: 8
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Chapter 59. 1982 The Hippocampus and Navigation
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- The Explanation
- Impact: 9
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Chapter 60. 1983 Reproductive Skew
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- The Concept
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- Impact: 3
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Chapter 61. 1985 An Animal Model for Anxiety
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- The Concept
- The Explanation
- Impact: 4
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Chapter 62. 1988 Brood Parasitism
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- The Concept
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- Impact: 3
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Chapter 63. 1990 Fear
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- The Concept
- The Explanation
- Impact: 5
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Chapter 64. 1990 The Challenge Hypothesis
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- The Concept
- The Explanation
- Impact: 2
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Chapter 65. 1991 Pain in Animals
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- The Concept
- The Explanation
- Impact: 8
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Chapter 66. 1991 Receiver Psychology
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- Impact: 4
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Chapter 67. 1992 Working Memory
- Abstract
- The Concept
- The Explanation
- Impact: 7
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Chapter 68. 1994 Ecosystem Engineers
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- The Concept
- The Explanation
- Impact 6
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Chapter 69. 1996 Conservation Behavior
- Abstract
- The Concept
- The Explanation
- Impact: 9
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Chapter 70. 1996 The Molecular Basis of Learning
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- The Concept
- The Explanation
- Impact: 8
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Chapter 71. 1998 Self-Organization of Social Systems
- Abstract
- The Concept
- The Explanation
- Impact: 6
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Chapter 72. 1998 Gaze Following
- Abstract
- The Concept
- The Explanation
- Impact: 4
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Chapter 73. 1999 Multimodal Communication
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- The Concept
- The Explanation
- Impact: 4
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Chapter 74. 2000 Emotion and the Brain
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- The Concept
- The Explanation
- Impact: 8
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Chapter 75. 2000 Social Amoebas and Their Genomes
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- The Concept
- The Explanation
- Impact: 7
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Chapter 76. 2002 Social Networks
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- The Concept
- The Explanation
- Impact 6
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Chapter 77. 2004 Behavioral Syndromes—Personality in Animals
- Abstract
- The Concept
- The Explanation
- Impact: 10
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Chapter 78. 2004 Maternal Epigenetics
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- The Concept
- The Explanation
- Impact: 9
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Chapter 79. 2004 Public and Private Information
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- The Concept
- The Explanation
- Impact: 7
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Chapter 80. 2014 Keystone Individuals
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- The Concept
- The Explanation
- Impact: 4
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- Reference
- No. of pages: 286
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 25, 2017
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128092651
- eBook ISBN: 9780128095454
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Michael D. Breed
After receiving his PhD from the University of Kansas in 1977, Dr. Breed began work as a faculty member at the University of Colorado, Boulder and taught as a Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology until his retirement in 2019. He taught courses in general biology, animal behavior, insect biology, and tropical biology. His research program focused on the behavior and ecology of social insects, and he worked on ants, bees, and wasps. He studied many aspects of social behavior, including nestmate recognition, division of labor, the genetics of colony defense, the behavior of defensive bees, and communication during colony defense. Dr. Breed was the Executive Editor of the scientific journals Animal Behaviour from 2006-2009 and Insectes Sociaux from 2014-2018.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA