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Patterns of Behavior

Patterns of Behavior

Konrad Lorenz, Niko Tinbergen, and the Founding of Ethology

Richard W. Burkhardt, Jr - Collection Science/History

636 pages, parution le 07/04/2005

Résumé

It is hard to imagine, by their very name, the life sciences not involving the study of living things, but until the twentieth century much of what was known in the field was based primarily on specimens that had long before taken their last breaths. Only in the last century has ethology--the study of animal behavior--emerged as a major field of the life sciences.

In Patterns of Behavior, Richard W. Burkhardt Jr. traces the scientific theories, practices, subjects, and settings integral to the construction of a discipline pivotal to our understanding of the diversity of life. Central to this tale are Konrad Lorenz and Niko Tinbergen, 1973 Nobel laureates whose research helped legitimize the field of ethology and bring international attention to the culture of behavioral research. Demonstrating how matters of practice, politics, and place all shaped "ethology's ecologies," Burkhardt's book offers a sensitive reading of the complex interplay of the field's celebrated pioneers and a richly textured reconstruction of ethology's transformation from a quiet backwater of natural history to the forefront of the biological sciences.

L'auteur - Richard W. Burkhardt, Jr

Richard W. Burkhardt, Jr., is professor of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of The Spirit of System: Lamarck and Evolutionary Biology.

Sommaire

  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Theory, Practice, and Place in the Study of Animal Behavior
  • Charles Otis Whitman, Wallace Craig, and the Biological Study of Animal Behavior in America
  • British Field Studies of Behavior: Selous, Howard, Kirkman, and Huxley
  • Konrad Lorenz and the Conceptual Foundations of Ethology
  • Niko Tinbergen and the Lorenzian Program
  • Lorenz and National Socialism
  • The Postwar Reconstruction of Ethology
  • Ethology's New Settings
  • Attracting Attention
  • Tinbergen's Vision for Ethology
  • Conclusion: Ethology's Ecologies
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
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Éditeur(s) The University of Chicago Press
Auteur(s) Richard W. Burkhardt, Jr
Collection Science/History
Parution 07/04/2005
Nb. de pages 636
Format 15 x 23
Couverture Broché
Poids 855g
Intérieur Noir et Blanc
EAN13 9780226080901
ISBN13 978-0-226-08090-1

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