SONG AND MATE CHOICE IN BIRDS: HOW THE DEVELOPMENT OF BEHAVIOR HELPS US UNDERSTAND FUNCTION
SONG AND MATE CHOICE IN BIRDS: HOW THE DEVELOPMENT OF BEHAVIOR HELPS US UNDERSTAND FUNCTION
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鸟类的鸣叫和择偶:行为的发展如何帮助我们理解功能
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2005
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通讯作者:
W. Searcy
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作者:
S. Nowicki;W. Searcy
A contributions to the study of animal behavior, Nobel laureate Niko Tinbergen is perhaps best remembered for articulating the “four questions” of ethology, outlining four ways in which one could answer the broader question of “why” an animal behaves the way it does (Tinbergen 1951, 1963). Those four questions address (1) causation (i.e. what physiological mechanisms are responsible for the expression of the behavior?), (2) ontogeny (what factors aff ect the development of the behavior?), (3) function (how does the behavior enhance fi tness?), and (4) evolution (what are the historical antecedents of the behavior?). Although researchers may focus their work on only one or a subset of those questions, Tinbergen maintained that all four must be addressed to answer completely the question of “why” an animal performs a behavior. Tinbergen credited Julian Huxley (1942) with introducing the idea that causal, functional, and historical analyses represent distinct approaches to the study of behavior. Tinbergen’s own contribution, he claimed, was to add ontogeny to Huxley’s list (Tinbergen 1963). Thus, it is ironic that interest in development waned, to some degree, as the science of ethology that Tinbergen helped establish gave rise to the more contemporary disciplines of neuroethology, which focuses primarily on causal mechanisms, and behavioral ecology, which emphasizes functional and evolutionary analyses. Recently, however, new reasons for interest in development have emerged, as researchers have realized that developmental processes, interacting with neural and physiological mechanisms of causation, can have important consequences for the function and evolution of behavior. Nowhere is the interaction of development and causation with the function and evolution of behavior more apparent than in the study of bird song. Here, we explore the value of the interplay among Tinbergen’s four questions for understanding a central question about bird song.
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DOI:
10.1016/s0163-1047(86)90485-1
发表时间:
1986-11-01
期刊:
BEHAVIORAL AND NEURAL BIOLOGY
影响因子:
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作者:
NOTTEBOHM, F;NOTTEBOHM, ME;CRANE, L
通讯作者:
CRANE, L
DOI:
10.1002/neu.480200705
发表时间:
1989
期刊:
Journal of neurobiology
影响因子:
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作者:
Nordeen,KW;Marler,P;Nordeen,EJ
通讯作者:
Nordeen,EJ
DOI:
10.1016/0163-1047(90)90797-a
发表时间:
1990-01-01
期刊:
BEHAVIORAL AND NEURAL BIOLOGY
影响因子:
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作者:
SOHRABJI, F;NORDEEN, EJ;NORDEEN, KW
通讯作者:
NORDEEN, KW
DOI:
10.1242/jeb.182.1.147
发表时间:
1993
期刊:
The Journal of experimental biology
影响因子:
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作者:
Westneat,MW;LongJr,JH;Hoese,W;Nowicki,S
通讯作者:
Nowicki,S
影响因子:
56.9
作者:
BOTTJER, SW;MIESNER, EA;ARNOLD, AP
通讯作者:
ARNOLD, AP