Preface page .................................................. vii
1 Understanding ourselves
Richard D. Alexander ......................................... 1
2 Motherhood, methods, and monkeys: an intertwined
professional and personal life
Jeanne Altmann .............................................. 39
3 Coming together
Patrick Bateson ............................................. 59
4 My life and hard times
Jerram L. Brown ............................................. 83
5 Individuals, societies and populations
Tim Clutton-Brock .......................................... 109
6 Birds, butterflies and behavioural ecology
Nicholas B. Davies ......................................... 143
7 King Solomon's herring gull's world
Marian Stamp Dawkins ....................................... 165
8 Growing up in ethology
Richard Dawkins ............................................ 189
9 A passion for primates
Frans B.M. de Waal ......................................... 219
10 Taking my cues from nature's clues
Stephen T. Emlen ........................................... 241
11 A most unlikely animal behaviorist
Bennett G. Galef ........................................... 279
12 Watcher: the development of an evolutionary biologist
Patricia Adair Gowaty ...................................... 309
13 Myths, monkeys, and motherhood: a compromising life
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy ......................................... 343
14 Luck, chance and choice
John R. Krebs .............................................. 375
15 My life with birds
Gordon H. Orians ........................................... 405
16 Reflections before dusk
Geoff A. Parker ............................................ 429
17 An improbable path
Michael J. Ryan ............................................ 465
18 Birds, babies, and behaving
Meredith J. West ........................................... 491
19 A brief just-so story of my life (a few of the
reminiscences that are fit to print)
Mary Jane West-Eberhard .................................... 527
20 A bird in the hand
John C. Wingfield .......................................... 561
21 Living with birds and conservation
Amotz Zahavi ............................................... 593
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