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Reading list

Behavioral biology

Beteendebiologi

Course
BIO209
First cycle
15 credits (ECTS)
Go to Behavioral biology

About the Reading list

Valid from
Spring semester 2025 (2025-01-20)
Decision date
2024-10-17

Buss, D. M. (2019). Evolutionary psychology: the new science of the mind. (Sixth Edition.). New York: Routledge.
ISBN: 9781138088610


Davies, N. B., Krebs, John R. & West, Stuart A. (2012). An introduction to behavioural ecology. (4th ed.). Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons.
ISBN: 9781444398458


Sapolsky, R. M. (2017). Behave: the biology of humans at our best and worst. New York, New York: Penguin Press.
ISBN: 9781594205071

Alternative:

Sapolsky, R. M., Wadensjö, Patricia,. & Olofsson, Jonas. (2018). Varför vi beter oss som vi gör: biologin bakom människans bästa och sämsta sidor. (Första utgåvan). Stockholm: Natur & kultur.
ISBN: 9789127820005


Recommended:

Dawkins, R. 2016. The selfish gene, 40th anniversary edition. (4th edition) Oxford University Press.
ISBN 9780198788607


Plomin, R. (2019). **Blueprint: how DNA makes us who we are**. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
ISBN: 9780262537988


Stewart-Williams, S. (2019). The ape that understood the universe. Cambridge University Press.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108763516