1 The Study of Behavior: History. - A Brief History. - Some Theory and Terminology. - Warnings Fallacies and Pitfalls. - 2 Some Ethological Concepts. - Evolutionary Basis of Behavior. - Ethology's Objectives. - General Methods. - Fixed Action Patterns (FAPs). - Conflict Behaviors. - Vacuum Activity. - Ritualization and Displays. - 3 Some More Ethological Concepts. - Sign Stimuli Releasers and Innate Releasing Mechanisms. - Programmed Learning and Imprinting. - Drive or Motivation. - 4 Assessment of Hereditary Influences. - Indirect Methods. - Direct Methods. - 5 Behavioral Endocrinology: Gonadal Hormones. - Synthesis and Major Sites of Production. - Transport. - Mechanisms of Action. - Organizational Effects During Development. - Activational Effects in Adults. - 6 Behavioral Endocrinology: Stress and Adrenal Hormones. - Definition. - Types of Stress. - The Stress Responses of the Body. - The Adrenal Medulla and Sympathetic Arousal. - The Hypothalamus and the Adrenal Cortex. - Corticosteroid Production. - Corticosteroid Metabolism. - Habituation to Stress. - Functions of Stress. - Psychosomatic Medicine. - Two Psychiatric Syndromes. - 7 Biological Rhythms. - Functions of Biological Rhythms. - Circadian Rhythms (2326 Hours). - Circatidal Rhythms (12. 4 Hours). - Circalunar Rhythms (14. 8 Days). - Monthly Rhythms (29. 5 Days). - Circannual Rhythms (365 Days). - Rhythms in Human Disease. - 8 Orientation and Navigation. - Orienting Responses. - Navigation. - Migration. - 9 Feeding Foraging and Predation. - Feeding Behavior. - Foraging. - Predatory Techniques and Antipredator Defense. - 10 Social Behavior. - Social Systems. - Benefits of Sociality. - Improved Care of Offspring. - Costs of Sociality. - Philopatry and Dispersal. - Evolution of Cooperative Behavior. - Mechanisms of Kin Recognition. - Environmental and CulturalInfluences in Primates. - 11 Communication. - Definition. - Functions of Communication. - Honesty and Deception in Communication. - Communicatory Signals. - Sensory Channels of Communication. - 12 Agonistic Behavior. - Interspecific Agonism. - Intraspecific Agonism. - Comparisons between Interspecific and Intraspecific Agonism. - Human Aggression. - 13 Sexual Selection. - Asexual and Sexual Reproduction. - Sex Determination. - Sex Ratio (SR). - Theoretical Considerations. - Intrasexual Selection. - Intersexual (Epigamic) Selection. - 14 Courtship and Mating. - Factors Important for the Onset of Courtship and Mating. - Functions of Courtship. - Mating Categories. - Bisexual Behavior. - 15 Parental Behavior and Mating Systems. - Models of the ParentOffspring Relationship. - Evolution of Parental Care. - Mating Systems. - 16 Nonhuman Primates. - Ethology. - Sociobiology. - Language in Apes. - 17 Humans. - Human Ethology. - Human Sociobiology. - References. - Author Index. Language: English