George Barlow (zoologist)

George Webber Barlow (born June 15, 1929 in Long Beach , California , † July 14, 2007 ) was Professor of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley until his retirement in 1993 . He was considered an important American zoologist , ichthyologist and sociobiologist , especially in the field of sexual selection in fish ; He paid special attention to the cichlids throughout his life .

Barlow's review of Ethological units of behavior from 1968 was again listed in 1996 as one of the 44 most important behavioral biology publications that appeared between 1870 and 1970 in an anthology by Lynne D. Houck and Lee C. Drickamer ( "Foundations of Animal Behavior: Classic Papers With Commentaries ” ).

Career

George Barlow studied from 1951 at the University of California, Los Angeles , where he earned his master's degree in 1955 and his doctorate in 1958. Immediately after completing his doctoral thesis, he worked with Konrad Lorenz at the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology until 1960 . From 1960 to 1963 he was an assistant professor and from 1963 to 1966 as an associate professor of zoology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . In 1966 he moved to the University of California, Berkeley as Associate Professor of Zoology, where he was a full professor from 1970 until his retirement. From 1973 to 1974 he was a guest in Nikolaas Tinbergen's group at Oxford University . In 1977/1978 he worked together with Klaus Immelmann at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research at Bielefeld University, in the Bielefeld Interdisciplinary Project on Behavioral Development .

Even after his retirement, he continued to research the social behavior of cichlids with the support of students from the lower semesters.

George Barlow was married with three children, Linda, Bicka and Nora. He died in July 2007 of complications from a stroke.

Fonts

Ethological units of behavior. In: D. Ingle (Ed.): The Central Nervous System and Fish Behavior. Chicago University Press, Chicago 1968, pp. 217-237.
with Klaus Immelmann, Lewis Petrinovich, Mary Main (Eds.): Behavioral development: The Bielefeld interdisciplinary project. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1981.
with Klaus Immelmann, L. Petrinowitsch, N. Main (Ed.): Behavioral development in humans and animals: The Bielefeld project. Parey, Berlin 1982.
with James Silverberg (Ed.): Sociobiology: Beyond Nature / Nurture? Westview Press, Boulder (Colorado) 1981, ISBN 0891589600 (= AAAS Selected Symposium 35).
Cichlid Fishes. Nature's Grand Experiment in Evolution. Perseus Books, Cambridge 2000.

Web links

Ichthyologist, animal behaviorist George Barlow has died. Obituary to: berkeley.edu of July 30, 2007
George Barlow's website ( February 13, 2010 memento on the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

↑ In Memorian George Webber Barlow ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). Obituary from the University of California , accessed April 7, 2015.

personal data
SURNAME	Barlow, George
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Barlow, George W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American zoologist, professor of zoologist, ichthyologist
DATE OF BIRTH	June 15, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH	Long Beach , California
DATE OF DEATH	July 14, 2007

[1] In Memorian George Webber Barlow ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). Obituary from the University of California , accessed April 7, 2015.