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Subjects “...Play behavior in animals Congresses....”

Table of Contents “...An introduction to animal behavior -- Behavioral ecology and the evolution of altruism -- The evolution of social behavior --The evolution of communication -- Avoiding predators and finding food -- The evolution of habitat selection, territoriality, and migration -- The evolution of reproductive behavior -- The evolution of mating systems -- The evolution of parental care -- Proximate and ultimate causes of behavior -- The development of behavior -- Evolution, nervous systems, and behavior -- How neurons and hormones organize behavior -- The evolution of human behavior....”

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Table of Contents “...Jakob von Uexküll's theories of life -- Biography and historical background -- Nature's conformity with plan -- Umweltforschung -- Biosemiotics -- Concluding remarks -- Marking a path into the environments of animals -- The essential approach to the animal -- Heidegger and the biologists -- Three paths to the world -- Disruptive behavior : Heidegger and the captivated animal -- The worldless stone -- The poor animal -- Three bees and a lark -- Animal morphology -- A shocking wealth -- A fine line in the rupture of time -- An affected body -- The theme of the animal melody : Merleau-Ponty and the umwelt -- The structure of behavior -- A pure wake, a quiet force -- A leaf of being -- Interanimality -- The-animal-stalks-at-five-o'clock : Deleuze's affection for Uexküll -- Problematic organisms -- Uexküll's ethology of affects -- The body without organs, the embryonic egg, and prebiotic soup -- Nature's refrain sung across milieus and territories -- The animal stalks....”

Table of Contents “...The science of animal behavior -- Evolution and the study of animal behavior -- Methods for studying animal behavior -- Behavioral genetics -- Learning and cognition -- Communication -- Foraging behavior -- Antipredator behavior -- Dispersal and migration -- Habitat selection, territoriality, and aggression -- Mating behavior -- Mating systems -- Parental care -- Social behavior....”

Table of Contents “...-- Alice in cinematic wonderland -- Logic of sensations in becoming-animal -- Stories, sensations, and affection-images -- Becoming-child before becoming-animal -- Passive and active affects -- (De)territorializing forces of the sound machine -- Acoustic mirrors and fantasmatic structures -- Rhythm, the refrain and (de)territorialization -- The female voice: back on the throne? ...”
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Table of Contents “...Animals in a chemical world --...”

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