Animal Behavior

by Dustin Rubenstein

The leading text in the field shows how researchers use scientific logic to study the underlying mechanisms and evolutionary bases of behavior, with emphasis on how evolutionary theory unifies the various sub disciplines within animal behavior. A comparative and integrative overview of how and why animals as diverse as insects and humans behave the way that they do, linking behaviors to the brain, genes, and hormones, as well as to the surrounding ecological and social environments.

608 pages, Paperback

Published April 13, 2022

Reviews

[Olive · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a top teir textbook. It is geared towards university students with minimal understanding of basic organismal and cell biology, and evolution. I have had two professors from different departments refrance this book repeatedly in their lectures. The last chapter on hunan behavior was unexpected but very well written and informative. The only thing I didn't like was that hypotheses proven incorrect were highlighted in the margins with the correct hypotheses. As a result, I had to cross out sections of my notes, which made them messy and harder to read.

[hilary barkey · Rating 3 out of 5]

had to read the whole textbook minus chapter 7 and 14 so i’m counting it