Ontogeny

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

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2. Preformation and Epigenesis in the Origins of the Nervous System and Behavior: Issues, Concepts, and their History

   • Ronald W. Oppenheim

   Pages 1-100

3. A Reformulation of the Idea of Maturation

   • Susan Oyama

   Pages 101-131

4. Ontogeny: Toward a General Theoretical Framework for Ethology

   • Jack P. Hailman

   Pages 133-189

5. Motivation: A New Perspective on Some Old Ideas

   • Frederick M. Toates, Lynda I. A. Birke

   Pages 191-241

6. Problems in Animal Perception and Learning and their Implications for Models of Imprinting

   • Patrick R. Green

   Pages 243-273

7. Ontogeny of Learning

   • James F. Zolman

   Pages 275-323

8. Learning and Foraging Behavior

   • Alan C. Kamil, Sonja I. Yoerg

   Pages 325-364

9. Evolutionary Issues in Development of Behavioral Flexibility

   • Robert Fagen

   Pages 365-383

10. Intraspecific Variations in Mating Strategy

    • R. I. M. Dunbar

    Pages 385-431

11. Cooperation, Altruism, and Restraint in the Reproduction of Carnivores

    • David W. Macdonald, Patricia D. Moehlman

    Pages 433-467

12. Reproductive Value and Behavioral Strategies: Coming of Age in Monkeys and Horses

    • Daniel I. Rubenstein

    Pages 469-487

13. Changes with Age in the Strategy of Social Behavior

    • Madhav Gadgil

    Pages 489-501

14. Back Matter

    Pages 503-520

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This volume is devoted principally to the theme of behavioral develop­ ment. The study of ontogeny has attracted some of the most bitter and protracted controversies in the whole field of ethology and psychology. This is partly because the arguments have reflected more general and continuing ideological battles about nature and nurture. In the opening essay, Oppenheim shows how these debates have recurred in much the same form over the last century. His chapter also brings out a more worrying feature of such argument. He demonstrates that authors who are well known for their strongly held partisan views have written in much more balanced ways than is usually admitted. Although the ex­ cluded middle is familiar enough in academic argument, the dynamic tensions actually present in developing systems may be particularly prone to polarize debate about what is actually happening. This point is elegantly explored by Oyama in her essay on her concept of maturation.

• behavior
• development
• evolution
• genetic research
• nature
• ontogenesis
• ontogeny
• phylogeny
• physiology

• Sub-Department of Animal Behaviour, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England

  P. P. G. Bateson

• Department of Zoology, Duke University, Durham, USA

  Peter H. Klopfer

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