Fundamentals of Animal Behaviour

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1. Introduction to Animal Behaviour 2. Genetic Material 3. Gene 4. Chromosomes 5. Genetic Variation 6. Single Gene Inheritance of Behaviour 7. Polygenic Inheritance of Behaviour 8. Heritability of Behaviour 9. Natural Selection and Behaviour 10. Frequency Distribution of Phenotypes 11. Darwin’s Finches 12. Evolution of Adaptive Strategies 13. Sexual Selection 14. Altruism 15. Sexual Strategy 16. Social Organization 17. Animal Perception 18. Neural Control of Behaviour 19. Sensory Processes and Perception 20. Visual Adaptations to Unfavourable Environments 21. Coordination and Orientation 22. Homeostasis and Behaviour 23. Physiology and Behaviour 24. Animal Learning 25. Biological Aspects of Learning 26. Cognitive Aspects of Learning 27. Conditioning 28. Conditioning and Learning 29. Instinct 30. Instinct and learning 31. Displacement Activities 32. Ritualization and Communication 33. Decision Making in Animals 34. Mechanism of Decision Making 35. Complex Behaviour of Honey Bees 36. Evolutionary Optimality 37. The Mentality of Animals 38. Languages and Mental Representations 39. Non-Verbal Communication in Human 40. Mental Images 41. Intelligence 42. Tool - Use 43. Animal Awareness 44. Emotion 45. Organization of Circadian System in Multicellular Animals 46. Concept of Central and Peripheral Clock System 47. Circadian Pacemaker System in Invertebrates with Reference to Drosophila 48. Photoreception 49. Phototransduction 50. The Physiological Clock and Measurement of Day Length 51. Molecular Basis of Seasonality 52. The Relevance of Biological Clocks for Human Welfare 53. Clock Dysfunction 54. Human Health and Diseases 55. Chrono pharmacology 56. Chrono medicine 57. Chronotherapy