Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, 1987, Volume 35

The study of animal behavior throws light on everything said to be ΓÇ£naturalΓÇ¥: social and family relations, mating, communication, and learning. Comparative Perspectives in Modern Psychology illustrates that human behavior is best understood through a method of comparative psychology, based on evolutionary theory that views behavior as the result of the complex interplay of genetics and environment. Contents include: ΓÇ£The Comparative Psychology of MonogamyΓÇ¥ by Donald A. Dewsbury; ΓÇ£Coming to Terms with the Everyday Language of Comparative PsychologyΓÇ¥ by Meredith J. West and Andrew P. King; ΓÇ£The Darwinian Psychology of Discriminative Parental SolicitudeΓÇ¥ by Martin Daly and Margo Wilson; ΓÇ£A Comparative Approach to Vocal CommunicationΓÇ¥ by Charles T. Snowdon; ΓÇ£A New Look at Ape Language: Comprehension of Vocal Speech and SyntaxΓÇ¥ by Sue Savage-Rumbaugh; ΓÇ£A Synthetic Approach to the Study of Animal IntelligenceΓÇ¥ by Alan C. Kamil.