A major advance in ethological theory was triggered in 1953 by a violent critique by Daniel D. Lehrmann who impugned the validity of the ethological concept of the innate. From Wordnik.com. [Konrad Lorenz - Autobiography] Reference
The enmity between generations and its probable ethological causes. From Wordnik.com. [When Spirituality Goes Awry: Students in Cults] Reference
In ethological terms, these differences will make almost no difference. From Wordnik.com. [Kansas BOE Chair - It's either the evolution or the Bible, not both - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
It is clearly written and is a handbook to do ethological behavior research. From Wordnik.com. [The Tinbergen Brothers] Reference
Many of Lehrman's ideas were incorporated into mainstream ethological theory. From Wordnik.com. [The Distinction Between Innate and Acquired Characteristics] Reference
And here's my article on Frank Salter's ethological study of bouncers in Munich. From Wordnik.com. [Clublife] Reference
In these discussions some conceptualisations took form which later proved fruitful to ethological research. From Wordnik.com. [Konrad Lorenz - Autobiography] Reference
Homosexual behavior in animals is a fascinating ethological subject, but bears barely at all on questions of human behavior. From Wordnik.com. [Against Nature? An exhibition on animal homosexuality - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
The incorporation of Lehrman's critique of Lorenz into the ethological tradition had a lasting impact on animal behaviour research. From Wordnik.com. [The Distinction Between Innate and Acquired Characteristics] Reference
Once fully back in form, could you perhaps be persuaded to write a snappy little ethological comparison between Italians and Frenchmen?. From Wordnik.com. [Hot and thirsty work] Reference
The format was for me to do present in the ethological sense, I suppose and then be critiqued based on my work and my ability to speak on it. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-02-01] Reference
It sounds as if the state of the art currently in dentrochronology is at the ethological or epidemiological level of understanding and dispute. From Wordnik.com. [Bristlecone dC13 « Climate Audit] Reference
Allen, C. and Bekoff, M. (1995) "Function, natural design, and animal behavior: philosophical and ethological considerations," in N.S. Thompson (ed.). From Wordnik.com. [Teleological Notions in Biology] Reference
Hochstetter generously considered my ethological work as being comparative anatomy of sorts and permitted me to work on it while on duty in his department. From Wordnik.com. [Konrad Lorenz - Autobiography] Reference
"Viriconium" is a theory about the power-structures culture is designed to hide; an allegory of language, how it can only fail; the statement of a philosophical not to say ethological despair. From Wordnik.com. [Maps and Fantasy] Reference
The ethological method is based in biology, and takes into account not only the behavior, but also the context of behavior, the environment, and the physiology and evolutionary history of the animal. From Wordnik.com. [Animal Cognition] Reference
Within an amazingly short time the University of Bristol asked me whether I would consider a lectureship there, with the additional task of doing ethological research on the water-fowl collection of the Severn. From Wordnik.com. [Konrad Lorenz - Autobiography] Reference
Although the ethological isolation varies in intensity from strain to strain, apparently no interbreeding takes place where the geographic distribution areas of two or even three incipient species overlap (EHRMAN19 65). From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
The reader's good will is tested only when Masson quotes the ethological community with approval on one page and then rails against it a little later, usually for its refusal to confirm or deny that animals have emotions. From Wordnik.com. [Nasty, Brutish, and Short] Reference
It is important to note that Byrne is not talking just about data acquired by the ethological method, but also incidents observed by scientist in the field or lab who are well-versed in the baseline behavior of the species. From Wordnik.com. [Animal Cognition] Reference
Lessons in ethological diversity and evolutionary dynamics from the SICK-lid family. From Wordnik.com. [The annotated budak] Reference
More interesting is a pair of the same length but without the "s": lethologica: ethological. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 4] Reference
The only check or corrective is, constant verification by psychological and ethological laws. From Wordnik.com. [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive] Reference
In the foregoing I have discussed the ethological relations of ants to a variety of other organisms. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to the Science of Sociology] Reference
And we can only elucidate properly the character of the actors by a careful study of all their geographical and ethological conditions. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles] Reference
For Cheney and Seyfarth the implication of Darwin's dictum is that ethological study of monkeys and apes can yield clues to the nature of the mind. From Wordnik.com. [The Chicago Blog] Reference
My main interest is the ethological and ethnographic analysis of human courtship behavior, based on participant-observer ethnographic observations in a variety of settings. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
This is simply false, for the ethological literature abounds with examples of ingenious experiments which have been designed to test the emotional sensitivities and intelligence of animals. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Paine's Corner] Reference
With my professors 'guidance, I applied ethological techniques to analyze dolphin-human interactions and found the results even more exciting than the glamorized, media-enhanced accounts of these encounters. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
The sharing of evolutionary, ecological and ethological features probably allowed these species to pass through a permissive period of transposable element invasion, explaining the proposed waves of horizontal transfers. From Wordnik.com. [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference
As might be expected, the most imperfect part of those branches of social inquiry which have been cultivated as separate sciences, is the theory of the manner in which their conclusions are affected by ethological considerations. From Wordnik.com. [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive] Reference
The actions and feelings of human beings in the social state, are, no doubt, entirely governed by psychological and ethological laws: whatever influence any cause exercises upon the social phenomena, it exercises through those laws. From Wordnik.com. [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive] Reference
Blair & Cipolotti 2000): and follows early ethological work showing that some animals in the wild cease their aggression if their victim shows signs of distress Lorenz, 1966). From Wordnik.com. [Mind Hacks: May 2005 Archives] Reference
Rarely have they ethological value. From Wordnik.com. [Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals] Reference
(New York, 1968) covers the ethological debate. From Wordnik.com. [WAR AND MILITARISM] Reference
By “search patterns” I’m specifically referring the ethological concept of “search images”. From Wordnik.com. [Our "innate" tendency to infer purpose in nature" - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
"animal" ethological base to be used for "human" ethology. From Wordnik.com. [The Tinbergen Brothers] Reference
First, A Thousand Plateaus has a much wider range of registers than Anti-Oedipus: cosmic, geologic, evolutionary, developmental, ethological, anthropological, mythological, historical, economic, political, literary, musical, and even more. From Wordnik.com. [Gilles Deleuze] Reference
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