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Behind the Mirror

Konrad Lorenz Lorenz Ronald Taylor

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Harper Paperbacks
11 September 1978
Nobel laureate Lorenz here investigates culture as a living system. From amoebas to humans, he traces the physiological mechanisms that direct behavior and thought. Translated by Ronald Taylor; Index. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book.
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Imprint:   Harper Paperbacks
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 221mm,  Width: 138mm,  Spine: 18mm
Weight:   340g
ISBN:   9780156117760
ISBN 10:   0156117762
Series:   Helen and Kurt Wolff Books
Pages:   261
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Konrad Lorenz (1903-1989), Austrian zoologist, played a leading part in the foundation of ethology, the study of animal behavior. Most of his work was done at the Max Planck Institute of Behavioral Psychology, in Seewiesen, Bavaria. Lorenz studied greylag geese and jackdaws in particular, and rediscovered the principle of imprinting (originally described by Douglas Spalding in the nineteenth century). In 1973, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, sharing it with two other important ethologists, Niko Tinbergen and Karl von Frisch. His books for lay readers include ""King Solomon's Ring"", ""Man Meets Dog"", ""Behind the Mirror"", ""Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins"", and ""The Year of the Greylag Goose"".

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