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In a flurry of post-war productivity, Niko Tinbergen re-established his lab in Leiden, wrote landmark papers and his famous book The Study of Instinct, and founded the journal Behaviour to serve the burgeoning field of ethology. Tinbergen and his senior assistant, Jan van Iersel, published their classic paper, Displacement reactions in the three-spined stickleback, in the first issue of his new journal in 1948. Stickleback are now a powerful model in the fields of behavioural ecology, evolutionary biology, developmental genetics, and ecotoxicology - an extraordinary development for a small fish that began its modeling career among an enthusiastic core of Tinbergen students in the 1930s. From a series of clever experiments with painted model fish to the use of the sequenced genome to analyze the genetic basis of courtship, stickleback science progressed in leaps and bounds, often via seminal studies published in the pages of Behaviour. Tinbergen's Legacy in Behaviour traces sixty years in the development of science using stickleback as a model, with 34 original articles covering topics ranging from homosexuality and cannibalism to genetics and speciation. Desmond Morris, Theo Bakker, Robert Wootton, Michael Bell, Tom Reimchen, Boyd Kynard, Harman Peeke, and Iain Barber provide fresh retrospectives on their republished works. Commentary by Frank von Hippel accompanies the articles and explains the roles they played in the frontiers of science as researchers falsified or expanded upon one another's ideas.

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The collection illustrates the rapid development of this field from ethology or Tierpsychologie towards up-to-date behavioural ecology and its manifold sub-areas. ... [It] is a book which has been on my desk since I bought it and every now and then I start reading it again, finding new interesting stuff from 60 years of stickleback research. ... Of course at a first glance this book appears to be most interesting for people working on sticklebacks and other fish model systems to whom I highly recommend it. I am, however, sure that readers with a more general interest in the course of behavioural research during the last 60 years will also not regret obtaining this nice anthology. J. G. Frommen, University of Bern, in: Journal of Fish Biology (2011) vol. 79, pp. 310-311 Frank Von Hippel has collected a number of research milestones in stickleback research [which] represent key moments in the science of animal behaviour. ... For current researchers in animal behaviour, this book provides a fascinating overview of the history of the discipline and the journey it has taken from its beginnings in the middle of the last century to the present day. Ashley Ward, University of Sydney, in: Fish and Fisheries (2011) vol. 12, pp. 120-121 ... [T[hose interested in learning more about the major scientists in stickleback research and the history of this model organism will find this book a useful read. Kate L. Laskowski, Eric R. Giesing, Laura R. Stein, Simon P. Pearish, and Molly H. Kent, University of Illinois, in: The Quarterly Review of Biology, vol. 85, p. 516

The collection illustrates the rapid development of this field from ethology or Tierpsychologie towards up-to-date behavioural ecology and its manifold sub-areas. ... [It] is a book which has been on my desk since I bought it and every now and then I start reading it again, finding new interesting stuff from 60 years of stickleback research. ... Of course at a first glance this book appears to be most interesting for people working on sticklebacks and other fish model systems to whom I highly recommend it. I am, however, sure that readers with a more general interest in the course of behavioural research during the last 60 years will also not regret obtaining this nice anthology. J. G. Frommen, University of Bern, in: Journal of Fish Biology (2011) vol. 79, pp. 310-311 Frank Von Hippel has collected a number of research milestones in stickleback research [which] represent key moments in the science of animal behaviour. ... For current researchers in animal behaviour, this book provides a fascinating overview of the history of the discipline and the journey it has taken from its beginnings in the middle of the last century to the present day. Ashley Ward, University of Sydney, in: Fish and Fisheries (2011) vol. 12, pp. 120-121 ... [T[hose interested in learning more about the major scientists in stickleback research and the history of this model organism will find this book a useful read. Kate L. Laskowski, Eric R. Giesing, Laura R. Stein, Simon P. Pearish, and Molly H. Kent, University of Illinois, in: The Quarterly Review of Biology, vol. 85, p. 516

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Frank A. von Hippel, Ph.D. (1996) in Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, is Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Alaska Anchorage. He has published extensively in the fields of evolution, animal behavior, ecology and ecotoxicology, using the stickleback as a model system.

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