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Instinct and history
Author(s) -
Malleson Nicolas
Publication year - 1961
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.3830060203
Subject(s) - instinct , dominance (genetics) , action (physics) , history , primate , cognitive science , psychology , epistemology , sociology , ecology , philosophy , biology , neuroscience , biochemistry , physics , quantum mechanics , gene
The idea that man has instinctual components which shape his history and his social structures has not yet been much explored. Perhaps an historical analysis considering dominance‐submission and group formation will show a recurrent pattern of events which corresponds to a pattern of subhuman primate behavior. Here historical accounts of two English revolutions and of the rise and fall of Rome provide examples of the effects upon group dynamics of “direct” and “indirect” challenges to action.