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ethology /eth·ol·o·gy/ (e-thol´ah-je) the scientific study of animal behavior, particularly in the natural state.etholog´ical ethology [ethol′əjē] Etymology: Gk, ethos, character, logos, science 1 (in zoology) the scientific study of the behavioral patterns of animals, specifically in their native habitat. 2 (in psychology) the empiric study of human behavior, primarily social customs, manners, and mores. ethologic, ethological, adj., ethologist, n. ethology the scientific study of animal behavior, particularly in the natural state. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Erikson's suggestion is that Satyagraha is a ritual of pacification which "may derive some of its obvious strength from an evolutionary potential" that is illustrated in the rituals among animals that the ethologists record. The pressure cooker metaphor is based on hydraulic models of aggression championed by Freud and 20th-century ethologists like Konrad Lorenz and Robert Ardrey, and critics are right to treat it dismissively. Peirce's conception of pure chance as living spontaneity with a tendency to make habits as a realistic but nonreductionist theory that comprises a solution to the worldview problems of Bateson, Maturana, Prigogine, and Stengers and the ethologists. |
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