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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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
  

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.)