It is hard to imagine, by their very name, the life sciences not involving the study of living things, but until the twentieth century much of what was known in the field was based primarily on specimens that had long before taken their last breaths. Only in the last century has "ethology" the study of animal behavior emerged as a major field of the life sciences. In "Patterns of Behavior," Richard W. Burkhardt Jr. traces the scientific theories, practices, subjects, and settings integral to the construction of a discipline pivotal to our understanding of the diversity of life. Central to...
It is hard to imagine, by their very name, the life sciences not involving the study of living things, but until the twentieth century much of what wa...
