An interdisciplinary approach to the fascinating subject of behavioral biology, investigating how the human brain is sculpted by evolution, constrained or freed by genes, shaped by early experience, modulated by hormones, and otherwise influenced to produce a wide range of behaviors.

Title from container. ""Course no. 1597""--Disc surfaces. Twenty-four lectures (30 min. each). Course guidebook includes a course outline, glossary, biographical notes, and bibliography.

pt. 1. disc 1. 1. Biology and behavior--an introduction ; 2. The basic cells of the nervous system ; 3. How two neurons communicate ; 4. Learning and synaptic plasticity ; 5. The dynamics of interacting neurons ; 6. The limbic system -- disc 2. 7. The autonomic nervous system (ANS) ; 8. The regulation of hormones by the brain ; 9. The regulation of the brain by hormones ; 10. The evolution of behavior ; 11. The evolution of behavior--some examples ; 2. Cooperation, competition, and neuroeconomics. pt. 2. disc 3. 13. What do genes do? microevolution of genes ; 14. What do genes do? macroevolution of genes ; 15. Behavior genetics ; 16. Behavior genetics and prenatal environment ; 17. An introduction to ethology ; 18. Neuroethology -- disc 4. 19. The neurobiology of aggression I ; 20. The neurobiology of aggression II ; 21. Hormones and aggression ; 22. Early experience and evolution ; 23. Evolution, aggression and cooperation ; 24. A summary.