The Natural Science of the Human Species: An Introduction to Comparative Behavioral Research. The "Russian Manuscript" (1944-48)

Lorenz, Konrad

Published by MIT Press (1996), Cambridge [MA], 1996

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orig.cloth Minor rubbing. Some page-edge soil. VG. Textual illustrations 23x15cm, (43), 337 pp, Edited from the posthumous work by Agnes von Cranach. Translated by Robert D. Martin. Contents: Philosophical Prolegomena; Natural Science & Idealistic Philosophy; Induction; The Consistent Hierarchical System of the Natural Sciences; On the Possibility of a Synthesis between the Natural Sciences & the Humanities; Biological Prolegomena; General Attempts to Define Life; The Unique Historical Origin of Organisms & the Phylogenetic Approach; The Organism as an Entity & Analysis on a Broad Front; Finality; The Mind-Body Problem; Historical Origin & Methods of Comparative Behavioral Research; Preconditions; Vitalism; Mechanism; The Implications of the Conflict Between Vitalism & Mechanism for Behavioral Research; The Inductive Basis of Comparative Ethology: Animal Keeping as a Research Method; The Origin of the Comparative Phylogenetic Approach in Behavioral Research; The First Steps in the Nomothetic Stage; The Research Personalities of Whitman & Heinroth & Their Findings; The Discovery of "Appetitive Behavior" by Wallace Craig; My Own Contribution to an Understanding of the Instinctive Motor Pattern; Eric von Holst's Discovery of Automatic Stimulus Production in the Central Nervous System; Implications for the Analysis of Related Phenomena; Conclusions. Minor rubbing. Some page-edge soil. VG.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Natural Science of the Human Species: An Introduction to Comparative Behavioral Research. The "Russian Manuscript" (1944-48)
• Publisher: MIT Press (1996), Cambridge [MA]
• Publication Date: 1996
• Binding: Hardcover