title: Taking note of Tinbergen, or: the promise of a biology of behaviour.
abstract: In this concluding paper, we revisit Tinbergen's 1963 article and assess its impact on the field of behavioural research in general, and the papers in this volume in particular. We show how Tinbergen's insistence that greater attention should be paid to studies of 'survival value' has yielded immense returns over the past 50 years, allowing an integrative biology of behaviour to emerge and thrive, and that his addition of ontogeny to the 'major problems of biology' was both insightful and prescient.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada. louise.barrett@uleth.ca
authors.forename: Louise
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Barrett
authors.forename: Daniel T
authors.initials: DT
authors.lastname: Blumstein
authors.forename: Timothy H
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: Clutton-Brock
authors.forename: Peter M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Kappeler
mesh_terms: D000220:Adaptation, Biological; D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal; D035841:Behavioral Research; D005075:Biological Evolution; D017753:Ecosystem; D014644:Genetic Variation; D010802:Phylogeny; D011323:Primates / Q000502:physiology; D012641:Selection, Genetic; D012919:Social Behavior; D013045:Species Specificity