Patterns of Behavior: Konrad Lorenz, Niko Tinbergen, and the Founding of Ethology
2006; Oxford University Press; Volume: 87; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1644/05-mamm-r-339r1.1
ISSN1545-1542
Autores Tópico(s)History of Science and Medicine
ResumoR. W. Burkhardt Jr. 2005. Patterns of Behavior: Konrad Lorenz, Niko Tinbergen, and the Founding of Ethology. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, 496 pp. ISBN 0-226-08090-0, price (paper), $29.00. Burkhardt, a historian of biology, 1st began his research for Patterns of Behavior five years after Konrad Lorenz, Niko Tinbergen, and Karl von Frisch shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their contributions to the founding of ethology. Ethology, Burkhardt quotes Tinbergen, is “the biological study of behavior.” Patterns of Behavior begins in the early 1900s, connecting major as well as minor events that led to the founding of ethology as a scientific field in the 1930s and through its development into the 1970s. The high level of detail in this book is a testament to Burkhardt's patience and persistence in pulling together a mass of sources, including records of conversations, letters, presentations, publications, photographs, and personal interviews. Patterns of Behavior is a close examination of how people, place, and society (e.g., politics) interact to influence scientific theories and structure research directions. Burkhardt provides minibiographies of scientists who directly or indirectly influenced ethology. The first 2 chapters cover the forerunners of ethology, including scientists from the United States (Charles Otis and Whitman Wallace Craig) and …
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