The promise of behavioural biology

The studies of behaviour that were strongly rooted in biology have had a long tradition of bringing together the ‘how’ and the ‘why’ questions. This integrative approach will serve the subject well in the postgenomic era as the long trend towards analysis at lower and lower levels starts to reverse. The new studies will make use of the resources uncovered by molecular biology and the neurosciences but will use the behaviour of the whole animal...