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Patterns of Behavior - Konrad Lorenz, Niko Tinbergen, and the Founding of Ethology (Paperback, 2nd Ed.)
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Patterns of Behavior - Konrad Lorenz, Niko Tinbergen, and the Founding of Ethology (Paperback, 2nd Ed.)
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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.
Winner of the 2006 Pfizer Awad from the History of Science Society
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