Behavioral Ecology and Evolution of Behavior

1. Introduction to Ethology
2. History of Animal Behavior. The entire text is here.
3. What is Instinct?
4. Evolution of Behavior.
5. Genes and Behavior.
6. Natural and Sexual Selection.
7. Levels of Selection. (Individual, Kin, etc.)
8. Behavior and Speciation Mechanisms (Biological isolating mechanisms, allopatric vs. sympatric, etc.)
9. Optimal Foraging Theory.
10. Natural and Sexual Selection.
11. Predator and Prey Strategies.
12. Dispersal, Navigation, and Migration.
13. Sensory Systems and Communication.
14. Sex Determination and Differentiation.
15. Male Reproductive Strategies vs Female Reproductive Strategies.
16. Proximate and Ultimate Origins of Female Preferences.
17. How females choose their mates.
18. How hormones affect behavior: See Behavioral Endocrinology.
19. Mating Systems and Parental Investment.
20. Genes, Environment, Development and Behavior.
21. Learning and Cognition.
22. Macroevolution Patterns and Phylogeny.
23. Evolution of Sociality.
24. Mating Strategies of Butterflies. Read it here.
25. Animal Consiousness, Intellegence, and Sociality. Read it.
26. Only Unthinking Intellegenece? The nature of animal intellegence and consciousness.
27. Bird song recordings. Listen here. Another good site is here.
28. Audubon's Multimedia Birds of America.
29. Social Insects web site.
30. Check out this slide show on behavioral endocronology.
31. Biological clocks in mammals.
32. Vision Science. Visit here.
33. The Evolutionary Ecology of Dispersal.
34. SHUFFLEBRAIN: The Quest of Hologramic Mind
35. Caognition and Perception Links
36. Endocrine Disrupting Nonylphenols Are Ubiquitous in Food
37. Pharmaceuticals, Hormones, and Other Organic Wastewater Contaminants in U.S. Streams, 1999-2000: A National Reconnaissance

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