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The natural science of the human species : an introduction to comparative behavioral research : the "Russian Manuscript" (1944-1948)

Title
The natural science of the human species : an introduction to comparative behavioral research : the "Russian Manuscript" (1944-1948) / edited from the posthumous works by Agnes von Cranach ; translated by Robert D. Martin ; with 12 drawings by the author.
Author
Lorenz, Konrad, 1903-1989.
Publication
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1996.

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Additional Authors
Cranach, Agnes von.
Description
xliii, 337 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Uniform Title
Naturwissenschaft vom Menschen. English
Alternative Title
Naturwissenschaft vom Menschen.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-323) and index.
Contents
  • 1. Natural Science and Idealistic Philosophy -- 2. Induction -- 3. The Consistent Hierarchical System in the Natural Sciences -- 4. On the Possibility of a Synthesis Between the Natural Sciences and the Humanities -- 5. General Attempts to Define Life -- 6. The Unique Historical Origins of Organisms and the Phylogenetic Approach -- 7. The Organism as an Entity and Analysis on a Broad Front -- 8. Finality -- 9. The Mind-Body Problem -- 10. Preconditions -- 11. Vitalism -- 12. Mechanism -- 13. The Implications of the Conflict Between Vitalism and Mechanism for Behavioral Research -- 14. The Inductive Basis of Comparative Ethology -- 15. Animal Keeping as a Research Method -- 16. The Origin of the Comparative Phylogenetic Approach in Behavioral Research -- 17. The First Steps in the Nomothetic Stage -- 18. The Research Personalities of Whitman and Heinroth and Their Findings -- 19. The Discovery of "Appetitive Behavior" by Welfare Craig --
  • 20. My Own Contribution to an Understanding of the Instinctive Motor Pattern -- 21. Erich von Holst's Discovery of Automatic Stimulus Production in the Central Nervous System -- 22. Implications for the Analysis of Related Phenomena -- 23. Conclusions.
ISBN
0262121905 (alk. paper)
LCCN
94048788
OCLC
  • 31900504
  • ocm31900504
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries