Behind the Mirror - Paperback
by Konrad Lorenz, Lorenz
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Availability:In StockContributor:Konrad Lorenz, Lorenz, Ronald Taylor (Translator)Series:Helen and Kurt Wolff BooksPublish date:1978-09-11Pages:261
Language:EnglishPublisher:Houghton MifflinISBN-13:9780156117760ISBN-10:156117762UPC:9780156117760Book Category:Philosophy, Psychology, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Epistemology, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, AnthropologyBook Topic:Cultural & SocialSize:8.72 x 5.42 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCKCYF0KNY
Behind the Mirror
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.
Series: Helen and Kurt Wolff Books
Language:EnglishPublisher:Houghton MifflinISBN-13:9780156117760ISBN-10:156117762UPC:9780156117760Book Category:Philosophy, Psychology, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Epistemology, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, AnthropologyBook Topic:Cultural & SocialSize:8.72 x 5.42 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCKCYF0KNY
Lorenz, Konrad: - 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...
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