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Human ethology is the study of human behavior. Ethology as a discipline is generally thought of as a sub-category of biology, though psychological theories have been developed based on ethological ideas (e.g. sociobiology, evolutionary psychology, attachment theory, and theories about human universals such as gender differences, incest avoidance, mourning, hierarchy and pursuit of possession).
Ethology is a branch of zoology that studies the behaviour of non-human animals. It has its scientific roots in the work of Charles Darwin and of American and German ornithologists of the late 19th and early 20th century, including Charles O. Whitman , Oskar Heinroth , and Wallace Craig .
This concept forms the foundation of ethological research. [37] [39] However, Richard Dawkins called Lorenz a "'good of the species' man", [40] stating that the idea of group selection was "so deeply ingrained" [40] in Lorenz's thinking that he "evidently did not realize that his statements contravened orthodox Darwinian theory." [40]
Just war theory (11 P) M. Moral relativism (1 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Ethical theories" The following 74 pages are in this category, out of 74 total.
Attachment theory, originating in the work of John Bowlby, is a psychological, evolutionary and ethological theory that provides a descriptive and explanatory framework for understanding interpersonal relationships between human beings.
He is regarded as one of the founders of modern ethology, the study of animal behavior. In 1951, he published The Study of Instinct , an influential book on animal behaviour. In the 1960s, he collaborated with filmmaker Hugh Falkus on a series of wildlife films, including The Riddle of the Rook (1972) and Signals for Survival (1969), which won ...
Ethology links the study of animal behavior and biological perspectives to human behavior and social organization. [2] Ethologist Konrad Lorenz was the first to describe the Kewpie doll effect and propose the effect's possible evolutionary significance, [3] followed by the work of Thomas Alley in 1981.
Behavioral ecology, also spelled behavioural ecology, is the study of the evolutionary basis for animal behavior due to ecological pressures. Behavioral ecology emerged from ethology after Niko Tinbergen outlined four questions to address when studying animal behaviors: What are the proximate causes, ontogeny, survival value, and phylogeny of a behavior?