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Alec Nisbett, a physicist and science writer, plainly had ample access to Konrad Lorenz, the ethologist and author of the widely read books King Solomon's Ring and On Aggression. But Nisbett seems to have been overawed by his subject. As a result, he has failed to write a critical study of Lorenz and his work. Instead, he has produced an informative Festschrift...
...psychologist, a non-anthropologist, a non-theologian, a non-ethologist--as in fact nothing more than a novelist--I qualify through my ignorance as a terrestrial Martian. Since I am only a novelist, a somewhat estranged and bewildered person whose business it is to see things and people as if he had never seen them before, it is possible for me not only to observe scientists observing people as data--in short to take a Martian view...
...Austrian Ethologist Konrad Lorenz, a couple of shadows marred the sunny days following his capture of the 1973 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (TIME, Oct. 22). First a bunch of trigger-happy hunters shot 19 of his animal subjects: graylag geese living on his Grünau observation grounds. Then came the discovery that the $4,000 Schiller prize, which Lorenz won just after the Nobel, had come from a German neo-Nazi group, who presumably had misunderstood his analysis of violence in On Aggression. Turning the prize money over to Amnesty International, an organization that keeps...
...those of, say, Charles Darwin. A 51-year-old mother of three children who lives in Mountain Ash, Wales, she earned an Oxford degree in English and gleaned most of her information about science "from reading books." Two men in particular inspired her. The first was Amateur Ethologist Robert Ardrey, the failed but imaginative playwright whose views she now rejects. The second was Oxford Zoologist Sir Alister Hardy, an authority on plankton who thought up a nonsexist version of aquatic evolution about a dozen years...
...many contemporary thinkers would accept this view of man as essentially savage. True, Freud once believed that human beings are born with an aggressive instinct and that "the aim of all life is death," but he later abandoned the idea. Currently, Ethologist Konrad Lorenz insists that aggression and violence are inevitable because they were bred into man by natural selection during prehistoric times. But there is widespread disagreement with this theory. Psychiatrist Fredric Wertham, for example, considers the Lorenz view "nonsense," calling it "not explanation but rationalization...