Behind the Mirror: A Search for a Natural History of Human Knowledge (Helen and Kurt Wolff Books) - Softcover

Lorenz, Konrad

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156117762 ISBN 13: 9780156117760

Publisher: Harper Paperbacks, 1978

Synopsis

Nobel laureate Lorenz here investigates culture as a living system. From amoebas to humans, he traces the physiological mechanisms that direct behavior and thought. Translated by Ronald Taylor; Index. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book.

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About the Author:

Konrad Lorenz (1903-1989), Austrian zoologist, played a leading part in the foundation of ethology, the study of animal behavior. Most of his work was done at the Max Planck Institute of Behavioral Psychology, in Seewiesen, Bavaria. Lorenz studied greylag geese and jackdaws in particular, and rediscovered the principle of imprinting (originally described by Douglas Spalding in the nineteenth century). In 1973, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, sharing it with two other important ethologists, Niko Tinbergen and Karl von Frisch. His books for lay readers include "King Solomon's Ring", "Man Meets Dog", "Behind the Mirror", "Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins", and "The Year of the Greylag Goose".

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
• Publication date: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0156117762
• ISBN 13: 9780156117760
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 261