A comparative and integrative overview of how and why animals as diverse as insects and humans behave the way that they do, linking behaviors to the brain, genes, and hormones, as well as to the surrounding ecological and social environments.
I like this book as much as a teacher as I did earlier versions as a student. Good data-driven text, great photos and associated videos, and I like their emphasis on the people doing the science, which I think helps emphasize for the reader that science is a process.