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Two worlds merge in the perspective we take for this chapter. One world is derived from behavioral ecology, the other from the discipline of developmental psychobiology. Their amalgamation provides a particularly rich view of behavioral development, one that we believe can stimulate the formulation and testing of new concepts and hypotheses.
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Alberts, J.R., Cramer, C.P. (1988). Ecology and Experience. In: Blass, E.M. (eds) Developmental Psychobiology and Behavioral Ecology. Handbook of Behavioral Neurobiology, vol 9. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5421-5_1
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