An ethology reading list
Adam J Calhoun (neuroecology)
At a meeting in New York last week [edit: many months ago by the time I got around to posting this], we were discussing the recent push in neuroscience for more naturalistic behaviors. One of the problems, someone pointed out, is that they are difficult to analyze. But surely there must be whole fields devoted to understanding natural behaviors? Why do we, as neuroscientists, not interact with them?
When I started this blog I named it neuroecology for exactly that reason: there was this whole...