From Human Ethology Bulletin to Human Ethology

Editorial to Special Issue: Human Ethology WHAT IS THE RELATION OF HUMAN ETHOLOGY TO ANTHROPOLOGY? A BRIEF HISTORICAL ACCOUNT

The quality of life. The Peckham approach to human ethology

ELIZABETH SMITH, A woman with a purpose. The diaries of Elizabeth Smith 1872-1884, edited by Veronica Strong-Boag, Toronto and London, University of Toronto Press, 1980, 8vo, pp. xxxviii, 298, illus., $25.00 ($10.00 paperback). The evangelical rationale for feminism and for women practising medicine goes back to the late eighteenth century: evangelism was transmuted into Victorianism. The inspi...

Ethology applied to animal ethics

According to modern animal welfare legislation, animals should be protected from suffering and lasting harm not for the benefit of us humans as in earlier anthropocentric conceptions, but in their own interest. The driving force behind animal protection is our empathy with animals which triggers feelings of compassion. Empathy with animals most likely is a psychological side-effect of adaptive ...

Ethology and Stress Diseases

Many of us have been surprised at the unconventional decision of the Nobel Foundation to award this year’s prize ‘for Physiology or Medicine’ to three men who had until recently been regarded as ‘mere animal watchers’. Since at least Konrad Lorenz and I could not really be described as physiologists, we must conclude that our scientia amabilis is now being acknowledged as an integral part of th...

Ethology of Mammals

which tend to capitalize on similarity rather than change. Time ranges of biologic rhythms are explored and an enormous variation is evident ranging from fractions of a second within an individual to millions of years in an evolutionary scale. The influence and interplay of exogenous and endogenous factors in such rhythms are discussed and abnormalities of rhythms are considered to be of fundam...