Studies In Animal And Human Behaviour: Volume Ii
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
From one of the twentieth century's most celebrated naturalists comes a landmark work that forever changed the scientific understanding of living creatures — Studies in Animal and Human Behaviour, Volume II by Nobel Prize-winning ethologist Konrad Lorenz presents a rigorous and revelatory continuation of his groundbreaking research into the instinctive drives, social rituals, and communicative behaviours that govern both animal and human life. Drawing on decades of meticulous field observation and experimental study, Lorenz chronicles the intricate mechanisms of aggression, bonding, and motivation, arguing with compelling force that the roots of human conduct are deeply embedded in our evolutionary inheritance. Translated with clarity and precision by Robert Martin, this volume makes Lorenz's dense scientific reasoning accessible without sacrificing intellectual depth. A towering figure in the founding of ethology as a formal discipline, Lorenz writes with the authority of a scientist who spent a lifetime in intimate observation of the natural world, weaving empirical data with bold theoretical argument to construct a vision of behaviour that is at once universal and profoundly specific. His prose carries a rare quality — simultaneously technical and poetic — that draws the reader into a world where the boundary between animal instinct and human psychology dissolves. For anyone who has ever wondered why we love, fight, or form communities, this volume leaves that question thrillingly, and perhaps uncomfortably, unanswered.
Author: Konrad Lorenz
Format: Hardback
Genre: Zoology
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
From one of the twentieth century's most celebrated naturalists comes a landmark work that forever changed the scientific understanding of living creatures — Studies in Animal and Human Behaviour, Volume II by Nobel Prize-winning ethologist Konrad Lorenz presents a rigorous and revelatory continuation of his groundbreaking research into the instinctive drives, social rituals, and communicative behaviours that govern both animal and human life. Drawing on decades of meticulous field observation and experimental study, Lorenz chronicles the intricate mechanisms of aggression, bonding, and motivation, arguing with compelling force that the roots of human conduct are deeply embedded in our evolutionary inheritance. Translated with clarity and precision by Robert Martin, this volume makes Lorenz's dense scientific reasoning accessible without sacrificing intellectual depth. A towering figure in the founding of ethology as a formal discipline, Lorenz writes with the authority of a scientist who spent a lifetime in intimate observation of the natural world, weaving empirical data with bold theoretical argument to construct a vision of behaviour that is at once universal and profoundly specific. His prose carries a rare quality — simultaneously technical and poetic — that draws the reader into a world where the boundary between animal instinct and human psychology dissolves. For anyone who has ever wondered why we love, fight, or form communities, this volume leaves that question thrillingly, and perhaps uncomfortably, unanswered.