This book brings together for the first time, a collection of classic texts combined with a number of contemporary syntheses on the widely studied topic of behavioural development in animals.Foreword by Patrick Bateson.
Preface.
Part I: General Principles of Development.
Introduction.
1. Principles of Development and Differentiation (excerpt). C. H. Waddington.
2. Ontogenetic Adaptations and Retrogressive Processes in the Development of the Nervous System and Behaviour: A Neuroembryological Perspective. R. W. Oppenheim.
3. From Watsonian Behaviourism to Behaviour Epigenetics: Zin-Yang Kuo.
4. Developmental Changes in Sensitivity to Experience. Patrick Bateson and Robert A. Hinde.
5. Behavioural Development: Towards Understanding Processes. C. ten Cate.
Part II: Theoretical Debates - Nature/Nurture and Beyond.
Introduction.
6. A Critique of Konrad Lorenz's Theory of Instinctive Behaviour (excerpt). Daniel S. Lehrman.
7. Heredity and Environment in Mammalian Behaviour. Donald O. Hebb.
8. Evolution and Modification of Behaviour (excerpt). Konrad Lorenz.
9. Semantic and Conceptual Issues in the Nature-Nurture Problem. Daniel S. Lehrman.
Part III: Empirical Paradigms: Development of Perceptual and Motor Mechanisms. Introduction.
Development of Perceptual and Motor Mechanisms.
10. The Developing Brain. Carla J. Shatz.
11. Development of Species Identification in Ducklings: VI Specific Embryonic Experience Required to Maintain Species-Typical Perception in Peking Ducklings. Gilbert Gottlieb.
12. The Companion to the Bird's World (excerpt). Konrad Lorenz.
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