NATURAL SCIENCE OF THE HUMAN SPECIES.;. An Introduction to Comparative Behavioral Research.The 'Russian Manuscript' (1944-1948)

LORENZ, KONRAD (MARTIN, ROBERT TRANS) (cranach, agnes von ed)

ISBN 10: 0262121905 / ISBN 13: 9780262121903

Published by MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1996

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VERY GOOD CONDITION IN VERY GOOD UNCLIPT(NOPR ICE) DUST JACKET; Metalic green spine titles on black cloth hard cover.white titles on black dust jacket showing photo of young man on 1 foot, 2 crows on his arm/leg. ; 337pg pages; "Russian Manuscript" was originally planned in 1944 as the first segment of an extended work when the author was Professor of Psychology in Konigsberg. After the war ended, Lorenz, then a prisoner, wrote this first part in Russian camps near Kirov and Yerevan. Later he was allowed to take the manuscript written on paper sacks and other fragments back to Austria,

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: NATURAL SCIENCE OF THE HUMAN SPECIES.;. An Introduction to Comparative Behavioral Research.The 'Russian Manuscript' (1944-1948)
• Publisher: MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262121905
• ISBN 13: 9780262121903
• Binding: HARDCOVER
• Illustrator: Illustrated by 12 Drawings BY LORENZ
• Edition: First Edition Thus.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

This work was written by Konrad Lorenz whilst a prisoner in Soviet prison camps. Edited posthumously by his daughter, the translation contains a synopsis of the ideas that made Lorenz famous as the founder of ethology, the study of comparative animal behaviour.

Review

-- Konrad Lorenz, "The Russian Manuscript" " The route to an understanding of humans leads just as surely through an understanding of animals as the evolutionary pathway of humans has led through animal precursors." -- Konrad Lorenz, " The Russian Manuscript" & quot; The route to an understanding of humans leads just as surely through an understanding of animals as the evolutionary pathway of humans has led through animal precursors.& quot; -- Konrad Lorenz, & quot; The Russian Manuscript& quot; "The route to an understanding of humans leads just as surely through an understanding of animals as the evolutionary pathway of humans has led through animal precursors."--Konrad Lorenz, "The Russian Manuscript"