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An approach to human ethology
Author(s) -
Russell Claire,
Russell W. M. S.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
behavioral science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.371
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1099-1743
pISSN - 0005-7940
DOI - 10.1002/bs.3830020302
Subject(s) - ethology , cybernetics , cognitive science , scope (computer science) , psychology , neuropsychology , epistemology , cognition , cognitive psychology , computer science , neuroscience , philosophy , ecology , biology , programming language
This approach to human ethology is through synthesis of ideas and generalizations from lower animal ethology, psychoanalysis, cybernetics, and neuropsychology, which are relevant for a theory of human behavior. It emphasizes the relative failure of human intelligence, and its social derivative, science, to explore the social environment and refine social behavior. The synthesis, though limited in scope, provides a language in which, at one end, lower animal ethology, and at the other, art, science, and culture can be discussed in related terms. Certain pathological factors are considered, the control of which would speed up human evolution and release great potentialities for progress.