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Tinbergen’s (1963) paper on the four whys is essential reading for any serious student of animal behavior. It was reprinted in Houck and Drickamer (1996), which is a collection of classic papers on all aspects of animal behavior, and in Tinbergen’s Legacy (Bolhuis & Verhulst 2009), which is a collection of contemporary essays reflecting on Tinbergen’s classic paper. The four-part reader by Bolhuis and Giraldeau (2010) is organized on the basis of Tinbergen’s four whys and has a collection of classic and contemporary papers on the evolution, function, development, and causation of animal behavior. Tinbergen’s (1951) classic book is still very much worthwhile. It was reprinted in 1992 and is still available. The British ethologist William Thorpe (1979) has written a brief history of ethology, viewed from the inside, while Dewsbury (1989) provides a more recent account from the North American perspective. Boakes (1984) is an excellent review of the history of the study of animal behavior by psychologists, while Laland and Brown (2011) provide a very clear account of the different ways in which the behavior of animals (including humans) can be studied from an evolutionary perspective. Functional and evolutionary aspects of behavior are also discussed in Davies et al. (2012). Hogan’s (2017) book provides an exposition and critique of behavioral concepts and of historical and contemporary studies of behavior.