Behavioral biology

Explores the process of behavior, illustrating that behavior can be both inherited and adaptive by examining simple forms of behavior in single-celled organisms. Records how one-celled paramecia, colonial volvox, and vertebrate fish all respond to environmental stimuli with behavior that seems genetically programmed for survival. Observes that, by probing the brain of the sea slug, Tritonea, biologists have related specific movements in an "escape" reaction to the electrical firing of individual giant nerve cells. Concludes open-endedly with an analysis of some aspects of human behavior., Shows that behavior can be both inherited and adaptive through the examination of simple forms of behavior in single-celled organisms. Looks into the behavior of more complex organisms and culminates in an analysis of some aspects of human behavior.