Book examinations (Boektentamens) in the Behavioural Biology Group

Below are listed books and supervisors for the book exams that can form part of the theoretical component of the course.

Hieronder staan de boeken waarover bij de desbetreffende persoon een boektentamen gedaan kan worden.

Supervisor: Johan Bolhuis

Hogan, J.A. and Bolhuis, J.J. (Eds.). (1994). Causal Mechanisms of Behavioural Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-43241-3.

Bolhuis, J.J. and Hogan, J.A. (Eds.). (1999). The Development of Animal Behavior: A Reader. Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 0-631-20707-4 (Hbk), 0-631-20708-2 (Pbk).

Bolhuis, J.J. (Ed.) (2000) Brain, Perception, Memory. Advances in Cognitive Neuroscience. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-852483-8 (Hbk), 0-19-852482-X (Pbk).

Macphail, E.M. (1998) The Evolution of Consciousness. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Hauser, M.D. & Konishi, M.  (eds.). (1999) The Design of Animal Communication. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Laland, K.N. & Brown, G.R. (2002) Sense and Nonsense. Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour  Oxford University Press.

Supervisor: Marie José Duchateau

Thomas D. Seeley (1995). The Wisdom of the Hive. The Social Physiology of Honey Bee Colonies. Harvard University Press, Cambridge.

Matt Ridley (1993). The red queen: Sex & the Evolution of Human Nature. Penguin Books.

Supervisor: Simon Reader

Reader, S. M. & Laland, K. N., Eds. 2003. Animal Innovation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Heyes, C. M. & Galef, B. G., Jr. 1996. Social Learning in Animals: The Roots of Culture. London: Academic Press.

Supervisor: Liesbeth Sterck

van Schaik & Janson (2000) Infanticide by males and its implications.

Eberhard (1996) Female control. Sexual selection by cryptic female choice.

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