KONRAD
LORENZ
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On Aggression.
"Let us imagine that an
absolutely unbiased observer on . . . Mars,
is examining human behavior on earth . . . if our extramundane
observer were a knowledgeable ethologist, he would unavoidably
draw the conclusion that man's social organization is very similar
to that of rats which, like humans, are social and peaceful beings
within their clans, but veritable devils towards all
fellow-members of their species not belonging to their own
community. If, furthermore, our Martian naturalist knew of . . .
the ever-increasing destructiveness of weapons . . . he would
not expect the future of humanity to be any rosier than that of several
hostile clans of rats on a ship almost devoid of food."1
[See Edward Ayoub's Notes on Aggression and Bankers.]
AYOUB
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Interesting Link
Konrad Lorenz,
Austria; Karl von Frisch, Federal
Republic of Germany; and Nikolaas Tinbergen,
United Kingdom. The Nobel Prize in
Physiology or Medicine 1973,
"for
their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of
individual and social behaviour patterns."
http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1973/index.html
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1 Konrad Lorenz (1903-1989). On
Aggression. Translated by Marjorie Latzke. Foreword by
Sir Julian Huxley. Konrad Lorenz, 1966. London, England: Methuen
& Co Ltd. [First published under the title Das Sogenannte B�se
Zur Naturgeschichte der Aggression. Vienna, Austria: Dr. G.
Borotha-Schoeler Verlag, 1963.] (Ecce Homo!, at 203-236,
especially 203-204.)
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