The Tinbergen Legacy

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Dawkins, M.S. (Editor), Halliday, T.R. (Editor), Dawkins, R. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1991.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Behavioral sciences.; Zoology.; Life Sciences.; Behavioral Sciences.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

RICHARD DAWKINS A conference with the title 'The Tinbergen Legacy' was held in Oxford on 20th March, 1990. Over 120 of Niko Tinbergen's friends, family, colleagues, former students and people who had never met him in person converged at Oxford for what turned out to be a memorable day...

Table of Contents:

• Early ethology: growing from Dutch roots
• Studying behavioural adaptations
• From animals to humans
• War and peace revisited
• Animal communication: ideas derived from TiribergenỚ"s activities
• The nature of culture
• Niko Tiribergen, comparative studies and evolution
• The Tinbergen legacy in photography and film.