Comparative Psychology: Evolution and Development of Behavior, 2nd Edition

Comparative Psychology (second edition) is a core textbook for senior undergraduate and graduate courses in Comparative Psychology, Animal Behavior, and Evolutionary Psychology. Its main goal is to introduce the student to evolutionary and developmental approaches to the study of animal behavior.

The structure of the book reflects the principal areas of importance to psychology students studying animal behavior: evolution, physiological issues, learning and cognition, development, and social evolution.

Throughout, this text includes many examples drawn from the study of human behavior, highlighting general and basic principles that apply broadly to the animal kingdom.

Mauricio R. Papini is Professor of Psychology at Texas Christian University. His work focuses on learning and emotion in situations involving surprising nonreward and integrating learning principles with comparative neuroscience concepts and techniques.