"Pollak, Edward" wrote:
> I'm in the process of choosing a book (or books) for Animal Behavior. The
> only recent ones on my desk are those by Alcock and by Siiter. Anyone have
> any preferences? Any other good ones out there? I've used Alcock before
> (many years ago) and thought it was OK but a little heavier on invertebrates
> than Psychology majors might like. I'm also considering ordering Dawkins'
> "The Selfish Gene" as an entertaining and lucid intro to the theory of
> sociobiology. I was really disappointed to see that Vincent Dethier's "To
> Know a Fly" is out of print. I'd have loved to order it for the optional
> Animal Behavior Lab course.
>
If you want to go more into the _learning_ texts, look at Barker's _Learning
and Behavior_, which was in its second edition in 1997. It's a learnig text, but
with an evolutionary/animal behavior perspective.
I have read most of _The Selfish Gene_. Though it's one of the foundations
of sociobiology, I found it didn't cover enough of sociobiology to use in an
undergraduate course (but it's a good read).
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