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"edited from the author's posthumous works by Agnes von CranachHere Am I Where Are You?: The Behavior of the Greylag Goose was thought to be Konrad Lorenz's last book. However, in 1991 the ""Russian Manuscript"" was discovered in an attic, and its subsequent publication in German has become a scientific sensation. Written under the most extreme conditions in Soviet prison camps, the ""Russian Manuscript"" was the first outline of a large-scale work on behavioralscience. This translation contains a synopsis of all the ideas thatmade Lorenz famous as the founder of ethology, the study of comparative animal behavior."

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Author:   Konrad Lorenz ,  Agnes von Cranach ,  Robert D. Martin
Publisher:   MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:   MIT Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.635kg
ISBN:  

9780262621205

ISBN 10:   0262621207
Pages:   382
Publication Date:   21 August 1997
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Unknown
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Part 1 Philosophical prolegomena: natural science and idealistic philosophy; induction; the consistent hierarchical system of the natural sciences; on the possibility of a synthesis between the natural sciences and the humanities. Part 2 Biological prolegomena: general attempts to define life; the unique historical origin of organisms and the phylogenetic approach; the organism as an entity and analysis on a broad front; finality; the mind-body problem. Part 3 Historical origins and methods of comparative behavioural research: preconditions; vitalism; mechanism; the implications of the conflict between vitalism and mechanism for behavioural research; the inductive basis of comparative ethology; animal keeping as a research method; the origin of the comparative phylogenetic approach in behavioural research; the first steps in the nomothetic stage; the research personalities of Whitman and Heinroth and their findings; the discovery of ""appetite behaviour"" by Wallace Craig; my own contribution to an understanding of the instinctive motor pattern; Erich von Holst's discovery of automatic stimulus production n the central nervous system; implications for the analysis of related phenomena."

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"""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"""

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

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