Chapter numbers and short titles refer to Alcock's Animal Behavior: an evolutionary analysis, 6e.
 

• See a schematic of song learning for song acquisition in white-crowned sparrows
• White-crown Sparrow songs , from the California Academy of Sciences, includes sound files of two different song dialects and a "hybrid" song.
•  Song Learning , from Doug Nelson at Ohio State University, offers summaries of current knowledge and descriptions of current research.

 UMN Dept of Psychology: MTFS is the home page of the Minnesota Family Twin Study.

• TITLE: Hormonal control of caste differentiation in Honeybees. A student paper from the University of Toronto reviews the development of caste differentiation and provides nice links to other bee-related sites.
• Chapter 6 (Learning) from Psychology: A ConnecText, Fourth Edition      by Terry F. Pettijohn has links to materials on a variety of forms of learning, as well as to biographical information, experiment simulations, and more.
• Read some fascinating work on learning by an African Grey Parrot at  The Alex Foundation homepage .  Check out the specific technique Dr. Pepperberg uses with Alex -- does it fit into simple models of associative learning?

• The Nobel Prize for  Medicine 1973 was awarded to Konrad Lorenz, Karl von Frisch, and Nikko Tinbergen.  Read why.
• The Nobel Prize website also offers autobiographies of all three laureates: Autobiography of Konrad Lorenz ,  Autobiography of Nikolaas Tinbergen , Autobiography of Karl von Frisch .

•  Light Sets the Molecular Controls of Circadian Rhythm presents a model of the molecular mechanism controlling circadian cycles in fruit flies.
• Circadian Rhythm Information is part of Stanford University's Sleep Well website; it has lots of interesting information on circadian rhythms and sleep disorders.
•  Circadian Rhythms , from John Kimball's on-line Biology text, is a very good introduction to the molecular mechanisms of circadian rhythms.

• The Socioecology of the Spotted Hyena is a nice student project from Davidson college.  Nice photos and references.
  
• Spotted hyenas have inspired an entire webring that includes some great photos, interesting information, and lots of link.  Start your tour at  the hub.
• Read "Rebranding the Hyena", an article from Dr. Kay Hollekamp's research group.
•  Dr. Michael Ryan's research page offers a summary (and neat photos) of his many research projects and includes a link to a QuickTime movie of a calling Tungara frog (the picture's dark, but the sound is very clear).

• Does aposematism really work?  Read about a couple of simple but elegant experiments at  Example of The Scientific Method in Evolutionary Biology and  Predator and Prey Interactions, Sinervo©1997 .
• For fun, check out descriptions and photos of anti-predator "devices" at Morphological adaptations to deter predators.
• If you're interested in Monarch butterflies, check out  Monarch Watch .

• Read a nice description of honeybee communication at  Honeybee Communication, Index .
•  Scientific American: Article: The Sensory Basis of the Honeybee's Dance Language: June 1994 offers some more recent information.

 USNews: Of males and tails (7/6/98) : this article describes Zahavi's handicap hypothesis in layman's terms.

Bowerbirds offer amazing examples of sexual selection.  Read more about them at   NATURE: Bower Bird Blues .

 Should females prefer dominant males is a nice review of the relationship between male dominance and female choice.

 The author of naturalSCIENCE, Volume 1, Article 11, 1999 offers what he considers a novel hypothesis about mate choice.  Is it really different from the models we've discussed in class?

•  Monogamy as a Prisoners' Dilemma offers an interesting take on human mating systems according to classic game theory.
•  Polyandry in Primates outlines the distribution of  various mating systems among primate species.
•  Blue Birds at Hastings illustrates the complexity of mating systems by outlining the major characteristics of mating in one species.
•  Ecology: Integrating  molecular techniques with field methods - a revolution results is a 1998 review explains how molecular techniques have increased our awareness of the complexity of mating systems.
•  ecology : Monagamous males play away from home -- some interesting (and not completely understood!) information about extrapair paternity in socially monogamous tree swallows.
•  Sunday Times - insight - 11 Feb 2001 -- David Barash offers an evolutionary perspective on extrapair copulation extended to human females.

Begin your "tour" of evolutionary psychology at   Center for Evolutionary Psychology , the entry point to a great set of resources by a couple of leading scientists in the field.  Read  Evolutionary Psychology Primer by Leda Cosmides and John Tooby  first, then explore the other links.  Fantastic!

 The Evolutionary Psychology FAQ covers a lot of good technical ground.

  For some contrary opinion about evolutionary psychology, check out this series of reviews and comments:  Boston Review:Orr Reviews "Darwin's Dangerous Idea" by Daniel Dennett ; Boston Review:Dennet Responds to Orr's Review of "Darwin's Dangerous Idea" ; and  Boston Review:"More Articles on Evolution" by Allen Orr .