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.

This work has had significant impact on the social and biological sciences and is now a classic point of reference for investigations of behavioral patterns. Lorenz presents his findings on the mechanism of aggression and how animals control destructive drives in the interest of the species. Translated by Marjorie Kerr Wilson. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

Darwin's work of 1872 still provides the point of departure for research in the theory of emotion and expression. Although he lacked the modern research tool of cybernetics, his basic methods have not been improved upon: the study of infants, of the insane, of paintings and sculpture, of some of the commoner animals; the use of photographs of expression submitted to different judges; and the comparative study of expression among different peoples. This new edition will be warmly welcomed by those behavioral scientists who have recently shown an intense interest in the scientific study of...

In Man Meets Dog, famous scientist and author Konrad Lorenz enlightens us with his illustrated account of the unique relationship between humans and their pets. Displaying Lorenz's customary humanity and expert knowledge of animals, this book is also a deeply personal and entertaining account of his relationships with his own four-legged friends. With sketches on almost every page, Man Meets Dog offers an insight into animal and human thinking and feeling.

Solomon, the legend goes, had a magic ring which enabled him to speak to the animals in their own language. Konrad Lorenz was gifted with a similar power of understanding the animal world. He was that rare beast, a brilliant scientist who could write (and indeed draw) beautifully. He did more than any other person to establish and popularize the study of how animals behave, receiving a Nobel Prize for his work.

Konrad Lorenz was the author of some of the most popular books ever published about animals, including Man Meets Dog and King Solomon's Ring. On Aggression was one of his finest works, as well as the most controversial.

Konrad Lorenz untersucht acht Vorgnge, die die Menschheit als Spezies mit dem Untergang bedrohen: die berbevlkerung der Erde, die Verwstung des natrlichen Lebensraums, der Wettlauf des Menschen mit der technologischen Entwicklung, der Schwund der starken Gefhle, der genetische Verfall, die Abkehr von der Tradition, die zunehmende Indoktrinierbarkeit sowie die atomare Aufrstung.

Konrad Lorenz hat das große Verdienst, in einer Zeit, in der die Menschheit zuweilen recht dilettantisch an ihren Zwängen und Widersprüchen herumdoktert, die - vergleichsweise primitiven, aber deshalb um so gefährlicheren - Grundantriebe menschlichen Verhaltens wieder ins Bewusstsein gebracht zu haben.§§Aggression gilt als einer der wesentlichen Faktoren menschlicher Handlungen und Reaktionen und wurde zum Schlagwort in anthropologischen und soziologischen Diskussionen.