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Tinbergen's four questions

Scope: general ecology
Papers: 1 | Mentions: 1

Local Knowledge Graph (11 entities)

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Knowledge graph centered on Tinbergen's four questions with 11 nodes and 27 connections. Top connected: The evolution, function, and meaning of marmot ala, alarm communication, social phenotype, Blumstein & Daniel transmission fidelity technique (Sciuridae), radioimmunoassay (Sciuridae).

Definition

Four categories of biological explanation: proximate causation, development, adaptive utility, and evolutionary history

Publications (1)

article

The evolution, function, and meaning of marmot alarm communication

2007Advances in the Study of Behaviorframework

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alarm communication

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kin selection

theory1 shared paper

social phenotype

measurement1 shared paper

acoustic adaptation hypothesis

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functionally referential communication

theory1 shared paper

exaptation

process1 shared paper