This paper examines the history of animal behavior studies after the synthesis period. Three episodes are considered: the adoption of the theory of natural selection, the mathematization of ideas, and the spread of molecular methods in behavior studies. In these three episodes, students of behavior adopted practices and standards developed in population ecology and population genetics. While they borrowed tools and methods from these fields, they made distinct uses (inclusive fitness method, evolutionary theory of games, emphasis on individual selection) that set them relatively apart and led them to contribute, in their own way, to evolutionary theory. These episodes also highlight some limitations of “conjunction narratives” centered on the relation between a discipline and the modern synthesis. A trend in conjunction narratives is to interpret any development related to evolution in a discipline as an “extension,” an “integration,” or as a “delayed” synthesis. I here suggest that this can lead to underestimate discontinuities in the history of evolutionary biology.

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动物行为、种群生物学和现代综合（1955-1985）

本文考察了综合期之后动物行为研究的历史。考虑了三个事件：自然选择理论的采用、思想的数学化以及分子方法在行为研究中的传播。在这三集中，行为学的学生采用了在种群生态学和种群遗传学中​​发展起来的实践和标准。虽然他们从这些领域借用了工具和方法，但他们做出了不同的用途（包容性适应方法、博弈进化理论、强调个体选择），使它们相对不同，并以自己的方式为进化理论做出贡献。这些情节还突出了以学科与现代综合之间的关系为中心的“联合叙事”的一些局限性。结合叙述的一个趋势是将与学科进化相关的任何发展解释为“扩展”、“整合”或“延迟”综合。我在这里建议这可能导致低估进化生物学历史上的不连续性。