Darwin's Disciples

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Four Ways to Think About Behavior

Lee Alan Dugatkin Ph.D. on March 14, 2012

Noble Prize winner Niko Tinbergen argued behavior could be studied at four levels. Not surprisingly, he was right.

Noble Prize winner Niko Tinbergen argued behavior could be studied at four levels. Not surprisingly, he was right.

Thomas Henry Huxley, Bishop Wilberforce, and why Lady Brewster fainted in 1860.

Your one chance to see a comparison of Davy Jones and Thomas Henry Huxley.

Darwinian medicine seeks to understand our vulnerability to disease. Why do we still get sick?

Word is in from the streets of the microbe world, and the message is clear: “You multi-cells are always on about ‘niceness’ and altruism: well, we have those here, in abundance. And we don’t have to schlep around those heavy brains and wiry nervous systems of yours either.”