Behavioural biologists do not agree on what constitutes behaviour

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 103-110

  Levitis, Daniel A ^a   Lidicker Jr , William Z ^a   Freund, Glenn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

behaviour; definition; level of organization; philosophy of science

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGY; SURVEY;

EID: 67349165406     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.03.018     Document Type: Article

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