The Ryan Lab Reader
A suggested starting point for lab members,
in no particular order

version 9/1/04

Mike Ryan’s publications
see publication page


√ Foundations of Animal Behavior : classic papers with commentaries
Houck, L. D. and L. C. Drickamer, editors.
University of Chicago Press, 1996.
(excerpts - TOC and introductions to sections - need to get intro to section 5, 6,

√ Studying animal behavior : autobiographies of the founders
Dewsbury, D. A., editor.
University of Chicago Press. 1989.
(excerpts - TOC, Tinbergen’s chapter)

√ Playback and Studies of Animal Communication
McGregor, P.K., editor.
Plenum Press, New York. 1992.
(excerpts)

The Selfish Gene
Dawkins, R.
Oxford University Press, 1976.

√ Behaviour and Evolution
Slater, P.J.B. and T.R. Halliday, editors
Cambridge University Press, New York. 1994
(excerpts - TOC, Ch 1, Ch 5 - Strategies of Behaviour)

Adaptation and Natural Selection
Williams, G. C.
Princeton University Press. Original 1966. Reprinted 1996.

√ Natural Selection: Domains, Levels, and Challenges
Williams, G.C.
Oxford University Press, New York. 1992.
(excerpts - TOC, Ch 1, parts of Ch 8- the lek paradox)

Sexual Selection
Anderson, M.
Princeton University Press, 1994.

Natural Selection and Social Theory
Trivers, R.L.
Oxford. 2002.

How to avoid the seven deadly sins in the study of behavior.
Milinski, M.
in Advances in the study of behavior, volume 26
Slater, P. J., editor.
Elsevier. 1997.

√ Passive and active female choice: a comment
Sullivan, B.K.
Animal Behaviour 37(4):692-694. 1989.

Acoustic communication in insects and anurans
Gerhardt, H. C.
Chicago. 2002 .

Evoked vocal response of the bullfrog
Capranica, R.R.
Research Monographs, 33,
MIT Press, Cambridge. 1965.

Pseudoreplication in playback experiments, revisited a decade later.
Kroodsma, et al.
Animal Behaviour. 61:1029-1033. 2001

Is there an ideal behavioural experiment?
Wiley, R.H.
Animal Behaviour. 66:585-588. 2003

Comparative method in evolutionary biology
Harvey, P.H. and Pagel, M.D.
Oxford University Press. Oxford. 1991.

√ The levels of analysis
Sherman, P.W.
Animal Behaviour 36(2):616-619. 1988.

√ Levels of analysis or analyses at the same level
Jamieson, I.G.
Animal Behaviour 37(4):696-697. 1989.

√ The clitoris debate and the levels of analysis
Sherman, P.W.
Animal Behaviour 37(4):697-698. 1989.

√ Adaptation and the goals of evolutionary research
Reeve, H.K. and P.W. Sherman
Quarterly Review of Biology 68:1-32. 1993.

√ The utility of the proximate-ultimate dichotomy in ethology
Sherman, P. and J. Alcock
Ethology 96:58-62. 1994.

√ On the utility of the proximate-ultimate distinction in the study of animal behavior
Dewsbury, D.A.
Ethology 96:63-68. 1994.

Optimality and phylogeny: a critique of current thought.
Reeve H K, Sherman P W.
in Adaptationism and Optimality
Orzack, S.H. and E Sober, editors
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2001.

√ Integrating historical and mechanistic biology enhances the study of adaptation.
Autumn, K.; Ryan, M.J.; Wake, D.B.
Quarterly Review of Biology 77:383-408. 2002.


Textbooks and References

Principles of Animal Communication
Bradbury and Vehrencamp

Behavioural Ecology
Krebs and Davies
(contents vary with edition)

Animal Behavior
Alcock

Evolutionary Biology
Futuyma

Sensory Ecology
Dusenbery, D.B.

Introduction to Behavioral Ecology
Krebs

A short guide to writing about biology
Pechenik J.
Longmans, New York. 1997.