Taking note of Tinbergen, or: the promise of a biology of behaviour | Zendy

Louise Barrett | Zendy; Daniel T. Blumstein | Zendy; Timothy H. Clutton-Brock | Zendy; Peter M. Kappeler | Zendy

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Taking note of Tinbergen, or: the promise of a biology of behaviour

Author(s) -

Louise Barrett,

Daniel T. Blumstein,

Timothy H. Clutton-Brock,

Peter M. Kappeler

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

philosophical transactions of the royal society b biological sciences

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.753

H-Index - 272

eISSN - 1471-2970

pISSN - 0962-8436

DOI - 10.1098/rstb.2012.0352

Subject(s) - value (mathematics) , biology , experimental biology , field (mathematics) , positive economics , epistemology , computer science , economics , philosophy , computational biology , mathematics , machine learning , pure mathematics

In this concluding paper, we revisit Tinbergen's 1963 article and assess its impact on the field of behavioural research in general, and the papers in this volume in particular. We show how Tinbergen's insistence that greater attention should be paid to studies of 'survival value' has yielded immense returns over the past 50 years, allowing an integrative biology of behaviour to emerge and thrive, and that his addition of ontogeny to the 'major problems of biology' was both insightful and prescient.

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