Behavioral Neurobiology: The Cellular Organization of Natural Behavior

I ordered one listed as "acceptable" but it is in very good condition except for binding. I'm really satiafied about the price and the book itself. Unlike many textbooks presenting knowledges systematically, this one is organized in several topics. It is an accessible introduction to behavioral neurobiology.

Beware - the paperback version does NOT come in color. It is GRAYSCALE. This doesn't mean that it was a bad textbook, but the visuals were significantly more difficult to understand without color. Otherwise, the textbook is great.

I am a behavioral Neuroendocrinologist and picked this up to refresh my memory of some concepts and learn others. I don't need about one-third of the book but the remaining two-thirds are excellent. It is a science text book and is full of technical language and terms but written in such a way to clearly set up and finish the chapters. I highly recommend.

Clean, great quality book. I was worried by how cheap it is compared to other textbooks I've had to get in the past, but this product is the real deal, actual textbook I needed. I got an A in the class, thank you!

Great introduction to the topic. Easy to read and follows a consistent structure of describing ethology, then neuroscience. Suitable for a senior level undergrad or a basic graduate course.

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With few exceptions the fields of neurobiology, ethology, and animal learning proceed in parallel in the academy, practitioners toiling productively in their respective fields but too rarely taking the time to exchange findings with people who share their questions if not their methods. This book builds wonderful, enlightening bridges between these disciplines, and in the process provides explanations for fascinating phenomena that cannot be fully understood at just one level of analysis. How, for example, does an owl know where in space the sound of a mouse scrabbling through leaves originates? How do bats manage to extract auditory images of the world precise enough to catch mosquitos on the fly? How do songbirds learn to sing just the right song in a world full of other birds singing other songs? These and many other specific questions are answered in ways that illuminate more general principles about how brains work so that by the end of the book one has a very strong sense of the possibility that the complexity of behavior in all its forms really can be brought into focus and explained in ways that are very satisfying. Given the technical nature of much of the basic research this is a very manageable read, although some prior background in one or more of the relevant disciplines makes the experience that much more rewarding. It's technically a text book, but it's a great read.