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The farmer, the hunter, and the census taker: three distinct views of animal behavior.
History and philosophy of the life sciences - 1 Jan 2010
Borrello Mark E
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The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between evolutionary theory and ethology in the work of Konrad Lorenz, Niko Tinbergen and V.C. Wynne-Edwards, the farmer, hunter, and census taker of the title respectively. I am especially interested in the idea of the ethologists Lorenz and Tinbergen that animal behavior and human behavior were equally appropriated subjects of biological analysis. Their...
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