Michael J. Ryan, Ph.D.
Regents Professor of Integrative Biology
The University of Texas at Austin
Born in 1953 in New York City
Studied Neurobiology and Behavior at Cornell University and Zoology at Rutgers University
Arbeitsvorhaben
Die Evolution natürlicher Schönheit
Sexual selection by female choice has generated some of the more spectacular and aesthetically pleasing traits in the animal kingdom. Yet outside of the field of sexual selection, there is only a very poor understanding of how evolution generates these traits. I will begin work on a book that will bring this stimulating field of evolutionary biology to a larger, well-educated lay audience.Recommended Reading
Ryan, M. J. (1985). The Túngara Frog: A Study in Sexual Selection and Communication. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- (1990). "Sensory Systems, Sexual Selection, and Sensory Exploitation." Oxford Surveys in Evolutionary Biology 7: 157-195.
- (2010). "The Túngara Frog: A Model for Sexual Selection and Communication." In Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior, edited by Michael D. Breed and Janice Moore, 453-461. Oxford: Elsevier Science, Academic Press.
Publikationen aus der Fellowbibliothek
Ryan, Michael J. (Princeton, 2018)
A taste for the beautiful : the evolution of attraction
Ryan, Michael J. (2017)
Environmental conditions limit attractiveness of a complex sexual signal in the túngara frog
Ryan, Michael J. (2011)
Signal perception in frogs and bats and the evolution of mating signals
Ryan, Michael J. (2011)
Relative comparisons of call parameters enable auditory grouping in frogs
Ryan, Michael J. (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y, 2011)
An introduction to animal behavior : an integrative approach
Ryan, Michael J. (2010)
Complexity increases working memory for mating signals
Ryan, Michael J. (2010)
Ryan, Michael J. (Washington, DC, 2008)
Sex-specific perceptual spaces for a vertebrate basal social aggregative behavior
Ryan, Michael J. (2008)
Categorical perception of a natural, multivariate signal : mating call recognition in túngara frogs
Ryan, Michael J. (Washington, DC [u.a.], 2001)
